European Digital Law: Buterin Urges Lawmakers to Slow Algorithms, Not Ideas

Source: CoinTribune Original Title: European Digital Law: Buterin Urges Lawmakers to Slow Algorithms, Not Ideas Original Link: https://www.cointribune.com/en/european-digital-law-buterin-calls-to-slow-down-algorithms-not-ideas/ Regulation sometimes looks like a room too neatly arranged. Nothing sticks out. Not a draft. And that’s precisely what Vitalik Buterin criticizes about the European Union: wanting a “clean” internet, without rough edges, to the point of reducing the oxygen available for crypto innovation. In a long message posted on X, the Ethereum co-founder points to the sore spot: the Digital Services Act (DSA) wouldn’t just try to contain the damage, it seeks to eliminate the very space where controversial ideas are born.

In brief

• Vitalik Buterin accuses the EU, through the Digital Services Act (DSA), of pushing toward a “space-less” internet where any deviation is closely monitored.
• He argues that the real danger isn’t the existence of controversial ideas