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Outside the U.S., censorship efforts continue aggressively. The UK, for example, now arrests over 12,000 individuals annually for social media speech, deploying AI-based hate speech detection and monitoring tools—many developed in collaboration with the U.S. government and private firms.
Similarly, the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA) aims to impose censorship compliance, which could revive the AI censorship “Death Star” in European social media platforms. NATO’s vision of 247 AI-powered disinformation monitoring systems further exemplifies the global push toward total information control.
Critical Solutions and the Path Forward
While recent setbacks signal progress, there is a pressing need for structural reforms: