Article 36 of the Digital Service Law gives the EU the power to impose a crisis measure that is binding to a large technology in an “extraordinary situation”.
Germany is excluded using the “crisis” Internet control protocol based on the entire EU law on digital services during the election.
German authorities have stated that Article 36 will not trigger based on the Digital Service Law (DSA). This imposes a wide range of restrictions on the Internet one week after cooperating with the EU Committee on the “stress test” of false information on the platform. Moderation.
DSA is a regulation of the entire EU that sets digital services rules. DSA was fully enforced on all platforms in 2024.
In order for a protocol to be triggered in Germany, the national DSA executive organization, Bundesnetzagentur (BNETZA), must warn the Digital Service Committee’s crisis.
DSA
Article 36 provides the European Commission to impose certain binding crisis measures under the “extraordinary situation” to a very large online platform and search engine.
On January 31, prior to the German election on February 23, a German federal election conducted an online platform capabilities to handle false information with the European Commission.
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Germany stated that the purpose of stress tests was to identify potential risks in connection with the general election, minimize, and “eliminate infringement quickly and effectively.”
This test was done in a closed room, and some fictional scenarios were simulated to test online platform preparations.
“As a digital service coordinator, we are fully prepared, tasks are assigned to national authorities and have a communication path in all related players,” he said.
Before the test January 24th, Thomas leisure, an official of the European Commission, said that the test was the first in the national election after it was held before the European Assembly election last year.
“The stress test has actually passed a potential scenario to see how DSA appears and how to respond to these specific scenarios on the platform,” he said.
“This was very successful … so I have the intention to do this with German authorities.”
Elon Mask
The test occurred on January 9th in a live interview with Social Media Platform X, after hosting Alice Wydel, the leader of the German German right -wing alternative party.
In December 2024, the mask approved the AFD, and on December 28, German paper, Welt Armntag, published a guest of guests, saying, “Only AFD can save Germany.”
Among them, the mask criticized Germany’s energy policy as “geopolitical simple”. This includes a decision to abolish nuclear power generation, greatly dependent on intermittent renewable energy sources without coal, imported gas, and an appropriate grid scale battery.
“The German economy, once a European power, is currently suffering from bureaucracy and stuffy regulations,” says a mask.
He also argued that Berlin’s mass immigration policy has caused important cultural and social tension.
He added, “It is clear that it is important to clarify the citizens that they are interested in them, and that such statements must be weighted.”
“Mr., the mask certainly pursues his own economic interest, but it should not be the same as the interests of our country,” he said.
Reuters contributed to this report.
