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

According to ME News, on December 27th (UTC+8), in response to the "zero space" governance emphasized in the EU's Digital Services Act, Vitalik Buterin called for replacing "purification" control with user empowerment, incentive mechanisms, and transparency to maintain genuine freedom of expression and a pluralistic society. Vitalik argues that 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 technocratic authoritarian mechanisms for enforcement. Vitalik believes 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. (Source: ME)