The European Commission’s new Digital Networks Act threatens to dismantle nearly a decade of net neutrality protections in Europe. What’s being pitched as a technical update could actually give politicians power over the open internet, create paid fast lanes, and weaken independent regulators.

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.

  • hector@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    Forcing everyone to identify themselves with ID and or likeness, to private companies, ID’s every account and IP, and everything done under that recorded, and AI sorting it all. Do you really not know what is going on here? You think the information won’t be held by anyone?

    Intelligence already has that information too to a degree. This would be accessible to lower level government, like political appointees, to silicon valley doing the verification, to the police, you name it, no matter what they tell you.

    You do realize some of the verification is sending video of you, and or sending in ID. If you don’t see a problem with that, I could not help but think your fear center is impaired somehow.