2025-12-06 21:25:48

European digital regulations are tightening their grip—and the crypto space isn't immune. Brussels hands out billion-dollar fines to platforms over loosely-defined violations, rolls out content moderation frameworks with murky accountability, and pushes the Digital Services Act across all member states. Unelected bodies now shape what can and can't be said online. For an industry built on decentralization and censorship resistance, these moves raise serious questions about who really controls the narrative.

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RektHunter

· 1h ago

The EU is coming to fleece retail investors again, this time targeting crypto... Unbelievable. --- Decentralization being centralized, how ironic. --- Wait, who gave them the authority to define "violations"? All these rules are just for show. --- DSA is basically just a front for controlling public opinion. --- Brussels really thinks it's the world police, lol. --- Billion-level fines... platforms will just pass it on to users again. --- Unsupervised supervisors, what a twisted logic. --- Absurd, isn't the whole point of crypto to get away from these opaque guys? --- "Murky accountability" is too real, you can never find out who actually made the decisions.

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OnchainHolmes

· 1h ago

ngl this is just the usual centralized power play... This move by Brussels is really outrageous, billion-level fines without clearly stating which rules were violated?

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LiquidityNinja

· 1h ago

Old Europe's rules are really messed up—it's already 2024 and they're still relying on fines and black-box regulations, it's hilarious. --- Decentralization sounds nice, but when facing billion-dollar fines, you still have to bow your head and behave. --- People in Brussels are once again deciding what we can and cannot say for us. This is exactly why we need crypto. --- By the way, who can actually understand their DSA framework? I’m totally confused by it. --- A power agency with no oversight making the rules? Isn't that the worst part of Web2 all over again? --- Hundred-million-dollar fines are handed down and no one can even say exactly what was violated—this logic is unbelievable. --- No wonder more and more people don't trust centralized systems. Just look at these tactics. --- The EU is killing innovation with regulation and then says it’s to protect users. I have nothing left to say.

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LiquidationTherapist

· 1h ago

Old Europe is really getting more and more authoritarian—a bunch of unelected bureaucrats making the rules, how ironic. --- The DSA is just old wine in a new bottle, still the same old centralized playbook. --- Just wait and see, all the exchanges will have to leave Europe, and then they'll act all surprised. --- Haha, those people in Brussels still don't get what decentralization means. --- A billion-dollar fine? Just think of it as the price of admission, they'll just take it back from users anyway. --- The problem isn't the rules, it's that no one has the right to make the rules. Why should unelected people decide how I use the internet? --- The EU is really doing suicide-level regulation—all the smartest builders in the world are going to the US. --- This is exactly why web3 exists: to resist this bullshit. --- One question: After they hand out the fines, can they actually stop anything? ... The answer is no.

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