“What is illegal offline, must be illegal online”. If there was only one sentence from the debate on “Democratic Scrutiny on Social Media and the Protection of Fundamental Rights”, held on Wednesday 10 February in the European Parliament, it would probably be this one.
It was delivered by the Portuguese Secretary of State for European Affairs, Ana Paula Zacarias, and was later taken up - and punctuated with an injunction to “put an end to the digital Wild West” - by the...