Ms Sabha Greene:

On the first point about having a carte blancheto remove material, the Digital Services Act, that is, the regulation, is trying to strike a balance between ensuring that illegal content comes down but that people’s freedom of expression is not unjustly trampled upon. There are procedures that when a platform is about to take material down, that if a particular person has posted it, the platform has to contact the person who is the poster and let that person know that the platform is taking it down, as well as the reasons this is happening. The poster will have a right to reply. It is not, therefore, acarte blanche.

I believe it will speed things up on the basis that it will be clearer to users who to go to and what the process is. It will also make clearer to the platforms what exactly the content we are talking about is and how to find it. If one has an order, therefore, the order has now to be somewhat more explicit about the content. The platforms would sometimes say that it can be like looking for a needle in a haystack and the idea here is to try to make it faster to find the needle.