EU has plans for a European Internet with a firewall [pdf]

[MaKey]

Quote of the relevant part of the document:

  5.1. European Cloud / European Internet

  The EU should include an action plan for a digital cloud – a European Internet – in the DSA. This European Cloud would foster a European digital ecosystem based on data and innovation. It would drive competition and set standards. Foreign web services could become part of such a digital ecosystem but must adhere to the rules and standards of the EU – such as democratic values, data protection, data accessibility, transparency and user friendliness. Technologically, it would require a top-level infrastructure, high-speed 5G or a 6G data network and a firewall. Setting up such a network would promote many European companies and therefore boost business and drive innovation. Like the Chinese firewall, this European internet would block off services that condone or support unlawful conduct from third party countries.

[geoah]

From what I can tell from this, the main reason for the EU cloud/internet is that the next years (they assume) we'll see a lot more personal data being managed by companies (health, personal data, etc); so they are looking for a way to be able to remove bad actors from the pool of companies who can access this data.

If you think about it in GDPR terms, any service that is not compliant is simply not accessible from the EU internet.

I would expect this to somehow fit together with articles 11 and 13 in order to enforce them (if they ever get implemented).

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I was expecting their predictions to be a bit more grim. Machine learning, privacy, and encryption play little to no part in their assumptions of the big things that will change.

[bxk1]

This reads like a dystopian fantasy, a "vision" to inject government control into every aspect of people's digital life.