EU's Digital Services Act is “content-agnostic”, academics tell US lawmaker
( September 3, 2025, 15:51 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The EU's Digital Services Act is “content-agnostic” and designed to strengthen user rights, more than 30 legal and technology scholars said in a letter to Jim Jordan, Chairman of the US House Judiciary Committee timed to coincide with a hearing titled “Europe’s Threat to American Speech and Innovation”. In a separate letter to EU Commissioner Henna Virkkunen, the academics said codifying safeguards in the DSA would help resolve some of the misunderstandings in the US about the law.The letters are attached....
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