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Open Letters by Academics on DSA and Censorship

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posted on September 4, 2025September 8, 2025
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Ahead of yesterday’s US House of Representatives hearing on the “Europe’s Threat to American Speech and Innovation“, more than 30 academics researching the EU Digital Services Act and civil liberties sent an open letter to Rep. Jim Jordan and Commissioner Henna Virkkunen. We wrote to correct persistent misconceptions that the DSA is a tool for

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[Save the Date] Decoding DSA Risk Assessments and Audits at LSE

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posted on December 5, 2024December 16, 2024
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In November 2024, very large online platforms and search engines published their first instalment of European risk assessments, audits, and audit implementation reports according to the EU Digital Services Act. The goal of this event is to discuss what the lengthy reports reveal about the first attempts of companies to comply with the new regulation.

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The DSA’s Scope Briefly Explained

This is an excerpt from a draft of Chapter 9 from my forthcoming book (Husovec, Principles of the Digital Services Act (OUP, 2024)). It describes the main digital ecosystem of services that are regulated by the DSA as infrastructure services, hosting services, online platforms, very large online platforms (VLOPs), and very large online search

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Why Article 17 DSMD should be invalidated? [talk transcript]

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posted on February 11, 2022February 13, 2022
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This is a slightly edited version of the transcript of my talk given at the conference hosted by the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan in December 2021. The talk is also available as a video-recording here

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How to fix the over-removal of legal content?

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posted on October 19, 2021October 19, 2021
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This is a short briefing paper submitted to the House of Lords about how to tackle the problem of over-removal on platforms by re-designing the incentives at

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CJEU redefines sui generis database right

On 3 June 2021, the CJEU handed down its judgment in CV-Online Latvia v Melons (with Ilešič as a reporting judge), a case involving Melons’ infringement of CV-Online Latvia’s database of job advertisements arguably protected by the sui generis right. The case significantly alters the previous case law on the infringement test. Read my and