While an addendum to the above: The GDPR uses mandatory upload filters since it holds platforms responsible for all it's users post. To what degree the EU censors is unclear, but that could change at anytime. In the US, the SMART Copyright Act already proposed this tech... (cont'd) 1/
... for copyright enforcement. While it was defeated, the same technology could be easily repurposed to censor other things too. I also suspect that we must oppose this and be fully prepared to deal with the fact that they'll likely attempt to slip this into must-pass legislation... (cont'd) 2/
... should suffiicent opposition defeat it: It is EXTREMELY difficult to defeat must-pass legislation in part or as a whole. I've only seen it done a few times... 3/