Today, 21 January 2026, the European Commission published its long-awaited proposal for a Digital Networks Act (DNA). Framed as a technical modernisation of Europe’s telecom rules, the proposal marks a decisive shift away from core principles that have safeguarded an open and neutral internet for almost a decade.
The EU started out great. They’ve been going downhill, but just in the last year they really just surrendered to tech, something to do with the US election I presume. Surrendering to tech especially, giving them every piece of information on everyone to run threat detection, ie chat control, age checks, etc. Sadly, shamefully, that is what your politicians are up to as we speak. Tell them to fuck themselves because you do not consent to being fucked by neither tech nor the US, nor them.
Chat Control has been haunting the chambers since 2021, and it’s in dormancy again as of November 2025. I don’t see how age checks benefit tech companies at all given they reduce their audience and the data for verification is required to be received by the government and denied to private entities. If you live in the EU, you’ve already given the government more information than that.
Besides starting to fine tech companies for violating the DMA, you also have the Digital Fairness Act proposal last year that we’ll soon see debating in Q3.