Our next guest in this series focuses on the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) and the risk of prematurely exporting an EU law: Daphne Keller, Director of the Program on Platform Regulation at the Stanford Cyber Policy Center.
Key quotes:
🗣️ "The DSA is fundamentally a law about how online information and expression will work for ordinary people. It empowers regulators in ways that many experts from the Global South have long said would be dangerous in the hands of their own government. Powers that could readily be abused in ways that threaten Internet users' fundamental rights range from the Member states' trusted flagger designation to the Commission's risk assessment and mitigation process."
🗣️ "In short, I think the DSA is generally a good law. I'm excited to see how it plays out in the EU. But it is very new, very untested and very consequential for fundamental rights in ways that may or may not be readily apparent, and that may play out very differently in different countries. It has not reached a maturity level that makes export a responsible choice."
💡 "The Brussels Effect" project
In this series of short videos, our guests share their diverse and often on the ground insights into the ‘Brussels effect’ to stimulate a constructive debate around the globalising effect of the EU’s regulation.
The Brussels Effect: Daphne Keller
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