Should the EU’s DSA Ban Google from Silencing Gaza Genocide Voices? I Doubt It Shields Truth

In implementing the “Digital Services Services (DSA)”, the EU leaders order Google to shadow ban what they consider “disinformation”. But it is unlikely they will ask Google to stop the propaganda trying to cover the horrors of Gaza genocide and starvation of Palestine children. 

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By Prof. Marcello Ferrada de Noli, professor emeritus

Among the ‘search engines’ operating on the Internet (Bing, Yahoo, etc.), Google controls almost 90 percent (89.62 percent to be exact). [1]

It has just become known that Google (which also would mean YouTube) has signed a contract with the Israeli government for its propaganda aimed at covering up the genocide in Gaza and denying the starvation subjected to Palestinian children. [2]

It is about a spurious endeavour, both due to the genocide-crime it would be covering, but also because the massive mass-manipulation it represents.

However, critical articles that would denounce this (in my opinion) unethical pecuniary agreement, have no prospect of being disseminated through searching news in Google, which, as I have said, control 90% of the market, all search engines taken into account.

Why is that possible? Because the European Union has recently implemented the “Digital Services Regulation (DSA)”,[3] which, in the name of “combating disinformation”, obliges Google to censor or omit publications and/or references to them through the practice of ‘shadow banning’. And a critic to Israel genocide adventure in Gaza is by the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) considered “disinformation”, or “hate speech”.

Geopolitical effects of the DSA censorship

In my analysis, a central reason for this new law –the Digital Services Act– emanating directly from the European Union Commission led by Ursula von der Leyen – is to prevent criticism of the implementation of the policy of rearmament and preparation for war against Russia.

This warmongering paraphernalia is being announced at an increasing pace by European leaders. Macron, Merz, Kallas, Stube, etc., seem to compete on who announces the most preposterous formula to provoke a casus belli.

They also want to neutralise the investigation and criticism of the cases of alleged corruption that are emerging among that elite.

And we have already witnessed the efforts of the European leadership to, in unison, prevent the dissemination of criticism about its adhesion to the Israeli government, the supply of European weapons and silence protecting the genocide in Gaza.

Please note that Google’s edition is universal, that is, what is censored in Europe is automatically censored in other latitudes of the Internet. In other words, it is a problem that sooner rather than later will involve censorship of sources – mainly accessible via Google Search – used by researchers all over, not only in Europe.

What to do?

It’s high time to organize an European peace movement, with a primary focus in the information (or rather “counterinformation”) about the danger represented by that irrational warmongering seemingly prevailing among European leaders.

But what communications are left viable when the EU’s DSA is targeting all social media regarded as “large”? Recently, an EU executive threatened the platform X (formerly Twitter) with sanctions if would not comply with the DSA requirements.

My books om DSA and freedom of speech

All the above motivated me, after a publications of a series of articles on freedom of speech here, in Substack and ResearchGate, to write the book “The EU’s censorship of freedom of expression: DSA becomes an echo of the repression of fascism to make war propaganda.” [4]

The reaction of the EU machine and its advertising tentacles has been merciless. From the placement of my name on the list “The World’s Top Dissidents in 2025” published in March, [5] I have moved to the top of the list “Short List of Top Authors Focused on Freedom of Speech (DSA Context or Broader)” compiled August 15 of this year [6]. Which, together with remaining on the public “kill list” Myrotvorets, of “enemies of Ukraine”, [7] has made me the target of threats, some more ridiculous than the others. My answer, as it has been since 1977: “La lotta continua.”

Up to this moment I have not translated into Spanish or Italian the book referred here, since I am preparing an expanded edition with new research and empirical results, which will appear in October of this year.

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References & Notes

1. “Global market share of leading search engines 2015-2025”. Statista, 30 Jun 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1381664/worldwide-all-devices-market-share-of-search-engines/

2. “Google involved in $45M deal with Netanyahu’s office to amplify propaganda: Report

Report says Google’s deal backs Israeli campaign denying Gaza famine”. Anadolu, 4 Sept 2025. https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/google-involved-in-45m-deal-with-netanyahu-s-office-to-amplify-propaganda-report/3677856

3. See “Digital Services Law”, in: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ley_de_Servicios_Digitales

4. Ferrada de Noli, Marcello Vittorio (2025). EU’s Censorship on Freedom of Speech: DSA Echoes Repression of Fascism for War Propaganda. ResearchGate, published with permission from Libertarian Books Europe. p. 114. ISBN 978-91-88747-37-2.

5. Pattberg, Thorsten J. “The World’s Top Dissidents (In 2025)”. Substack. 2025-03-25.

6. “EU’s Censorship on Freedom of Speech…” Op. cit. p. 88-89.

7. Also on the Myrotvorets list (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrotvorets) was the Chilean-American journalist Gonzalo Lira, who, after being murdered in a prison in Ukraine, had his photo marked in Myrotvorets with an X (“out of combat”).