I would read the links in the article. The problem is that social media companies worked with civil servants in European countries to remove posts being made people outside Europe. This also happened in the UK where there were parts of the government that were able to make requests directly to social media companies to remove posts on their platform, regardless of where the poster was from.

For obvious reasons, the linked article does not explain that fully.

It is kind of weird to see the turnaround on here from people who complain about the US government being too powerful but, for some reason, are quite okay with an unelected EU bureaucrat being able to govern their internet usage. There are no principles at play here.

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phatfish 33 minutes ago | parent [-]

Honestly, rather a "unelected EU bureaucrat" (What does this even mean? Are we going to individually elect the entire civil service, or require elected officials to delegate nothing and personally review every decision?) than an American tech-bro governing my internet usage.

	▲	skippyboxedhero 19 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Amazing that I have to point out what the function of the government is to someone who complains about tech bros...you sound like a libertarian... But yes, one of the functions of the government is to dictate how common public goods are used within that country. Public transports, roads, and yes...the internet. As a result, there needs to be political accountability for that function. I said nothing about an elected civil service, as with every discussion of politics in the modern day you seem to be more concerned with what you imagine I must think than what I said. The idea of political accountability is a cornerstone of modern democracy. The left-wing mind has been so utterly destroyed that they take extreme libertarian positions to justify why bureaucrats in another country should take over functions of their own government.