Vitalik criticized the EU's "zero space" governance, advocating for replacing control with user empowerment, incentive mechanisms, and transparency.

[Vitalik Criticizes EU's "Zero Space" Governance, Advocates Replacing Control with User Empowerment, Incentives, and Transparency] According to Mars Finance, in response to tweets emphasizing "zero space" governance in the EU's Digital Services Act, Vitalik called for replacing "purification-style" control with user empowerment, incentives, and transparency to maintain genuine freedom of speech and a pluralistic society. Vitalik believes this "zero space" concept is a totalitarian and anti-pluralistic impulse because it attempts to completely eliminate subjectively controversial content (such as "hate speech" or "disinformation"), inevitably creating conflict and building a technocratic authoritarian mechanism for enforcement. Vitalik argues that free societies must accept that some people will sell "dangerous products" or spread "malicious opinions," but the goal should not be complete eradication, but rather preventing such content from dominating the discourse. Vitalik advocates for a "pirate-style" user empowerment approach: incentivizing rather than banning harmful content; promoting greater openness and transparency on social media platforms, etc.