These Trusted Flaggers are charged with eradicating "hate speech" and "fake news" from social media; platforms that ignore their Trusted Flagging can be fined or face other serious sanctions.Are you one of those schoolmarm hall-monitor types?
Do you have a screechy voice and do you enjoy looking down your nose at other people?
Do your favourite pastimes include complaining to the manager, telling teenagers not to say bad words and levelling self-superior moral disapproval at everything you don't like?
Well, then the European Union is just the place for you! Under our fantastic new
Digital Services Act (DSA), you can engage in all these recreations, and what is more,
you can do so in an official capacity, as a Trusted Flagger!
In places like the United States, censorship is a thing that the three-letter agencies and the major social media platforms have to hash out among themselves behind closed doors. Things are different here in Europe, where the DSA has imposed upon all of us a totally legal censorship regime for the purposes of cracking down on notionally "illegal" internet content. Any censorship regime of course requires censors, and that's where you, the aspiring Trusted Flagger, come in. This is your golden opportunity.
Comment: Meanwhile, Russia goes from strength to strength Capitalists gonna capital. Short-sighted sanctions on Russia and individual Russians brought millions in ex-pat money home which was then invested in the country. They took one look at the seizure of Russian state assets and said, "That could be me next." And Russia benefits.