So you refer to the DSA.
https://www.eff.org/issues/eu-policy-principlesThe EFF reports on it as a groundbreaking Backbone for individuals freedoms.
The EFF defnitly has always been one of the more important organisations to be the voice of free citizens in the internet.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/systemic-risk-reporting-system-crisisIn this report they write about the risks of surveilance and sharing of personal data it could bring.
And it is fair to defend privacy rights, so no company is oblidged to save additional logs and offer faster data on its user to the police (especially, when it should be automated).
But as all of these points are legitimate to criticize, it is simply not true, that the DSA is one big surveillance tool implemented by authoritarian regimes. To say this lacks the understanding of all the great regulation it brings towards BigTech, which are needed so much in order to defend an open internet.
For example in the will of Google to stop users from installing their apk’s from whatever source they want, the DSA could help defend freedom.
And yet unseen law cases have been buiot against BigTech with the help of DSA.