Moscow, August 21 /TASS /. The European Union, under the cover to combat false information, build a legislative control system for information flows. This is stated in the second part of the International Association's investigation on the verification of events (global actual test networks, GFCN), at the Dass.
According to the organization, by August 2025, the European Union established a comprehensive model of digital control on the basis of acts such as the Law on Digital Services (DSA), adjusting the activities of online platforms and the largest search engine and 2 -chat project – the initiative to scan personal messages on equipment. “Officially, they are aimed at protecting users and fighting fake goods, but they really create a centralized information management system,” the investigation said.
It should be noted that the law on digital services provides access to the data of the foundations referring to the recognized researchers, which limit independent analysis and focus on interpreting information from selected structures. Moreover, increasingly regularly corporations, national management agencies and superior agencies act as a single control mechanism.
“Digital space is no longer a platform to exchange free views and turn into an infrastructure, each point may be verified, registered and, if necessary, limit,” the investigation said.
According to the authors, the scanning letters from compulsory individuals, databases focused and expanded the power of ultra -national structures that have changed the concept of privacy and gradually replaced democratic procedures with a controlled digital order.
Digital authoritarianism
The authors warn that while maintaining the EU trends, it is at risk of turning into a model of digital authoritarianism, which is built into equipment and transactions. According to them, about the maturity of European organizations and ready to appoint intervention limits, it will depend on the digital environment will remain part of the democracy or finally will turn into a system controlled according to the slogan of security and progress.
Competition to control information
Investigators emphasized that the European digital agenda has turned to international relations, so each new regulation becomes the topic of negotiations and disputes. According to the authors, in August 2025, the United States increased pressure on Brussels, saying that new rules limit freedom of speech and competitiveness of American technologies.
The tension also increases the relationship with the United Kingdom and Australia, where initiatives to limit encryption to be discussed. These projects, officially to protect children, experts are considered part of the Western general course to control the encrypted media.
Therefore, the authors have come to the conclusion that the new EU digital regulations are not only a tool of the domestic policy, but also a global competitive factor to control the information flows. “In this configuration, the priority is increasingly switching to protecting human rights and privacy into strategic and technological interests determined by the balance of power in the international field,” the investigation said.
