Vitalik Buterin criticizes the EU's "zero space" governance: it should not eliminate controversial content, but rather limit algorithmic amplification.

Vitalik Buterin, addressing the "zero space" governance emphasized in the EU's Digital Services Act, points out that viewing certain speech or goods as objects to be completely eradicated is essentially an anti-pluralistic and anti-inclusive governance impulse. When dealing with subjective issues involving well-intentioned disagreements, this approach easily leads to the use of a technocratic system to forcibly define the boundaries of public discourse. He emphasizes that free societies do not aim to eliminate controversial content, but rather to prevent it from being systematically amplified and dominating public discussion under the influence of platform algorithms and incentive mechanisms.