While working on the Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA), Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) raised the importance of regulating online platforms through laws rather than relying on corporate guidelines. They stressed that the EU might guarantee freedom of expression and fundamental rights while publicly regulating what should remain online. According to the MEP Annalisa Tardino, lawmakers have a democratic mission to establish clear procedures and rules around the limitations of freedom of speech on social media. In the same meeting, European Commission Vice President V