DSA Fines Target Verification, Not Moderation

Regulators may use the EU Digital Services Act to punish a platform on narrow, fixable compliance points (account‑verification, ad repositories, researcher access) when content‑moderation violations are legally or politically harder to prove. That converts public spectacles about ‘censorship’ into enforceable technical obligations that platforms must patch or face continuing penalties. — If true, regulators will increasingly pressure large platforms through data‑access and provenance demands — shifting the battleground from a binary free‑speech framing to technical governance, compliance, and auditability.