EU Commissioners present speeches on the DSA

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The Executive Vice-President of the European Commission, Margarethe Vestager, and Commissioner for the Internal Market, Thierry Breton, have presented speeches on the Digital Services Act (DSA) on 19 January 2022. Vice President Vestager highlighted the main objectives of the EU’s regulation of the internet: making the internet safer for EU citizens, protecting them from illegal content, while securing citizens’ freedom of expression online. Vice President Vestager also emphasised the importance of enforcement for the successful implementation of the DSA. Commissioner Breton provided a summary of the four main policy objectives of the EU DSA, which include clear rules of the removal of anything illegal in the digital space, risk-based obligations to prevent abuse online, transparency obligations on platforms to ensure that citizens know why they are targeted by certain content, and a guarantee that the rules will be applied uniformly across the EU. Commissioner Breton stated that the proposals are on track to be adopted by the end of...