Although I don't think all of DSA is bad, there's two red flags:
1. Zensursula endorses it
2. It "protects our childern" (pedophrastry as Taleb call it)
Discussion
"trusted flaggers"
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/QANDA_20_2348
Some of the requirements are actually made uncessary by Nostr:
* Wide ranging transparency measures for online platforms, including better information on terms and conditions, as well as transparency on the algorithms used for recommending content or products to users
(Unless you use a closed-source client)
* A ban on using so-called ‘dark patterns' on the interface of online platforms, referring to misleading tricks that manipulate users into choices they do not intend to make;
(Unless you use a closed-source client)
Relays could also play the above tricks but they're severely restricted: they can omit stuff (easy to detect), but they can't insert ads (since it would require forging the signature of someone you follow).
* allow access to data to researchers
It's all there.
On the other hand:
* Where a content is illegal only in a given Member State, as a general rule it should only be removed in the territory where it is illegal
This is borderline imbecilic.
Where DSA is really a threat is in its use of App Stores as choke points. However that's a pre-existing threat that should be eliminated anyway.
Typical EU propaganda move: introduce an onerous law that instantly kills any small business subjected to it, but then pretend it's fine because it's less work for these (now dead) companies than a theoretical situation where all 27 member status had introduced something similar on their own.
Execpt that's not how it works: individual countries stupid laws will see business leave to a competing country. The EU has much more monopoly power since leaving the EU has higher switching cost.
If you impose a million obligations, then the fact that the "majority" doesn't apply to small businesses is exactly zero comfort. And can change once the frog has a boiled a bit.
"For rogue platforms refusing to comply with important obligations and thereby endangering people's life and safety, it will be possible as a last resort to ask a court for a temporary suspension of their service, after involving all relevant parties."
So basically a scenario where all EU internet providers, app stores, banks, etc are forced to block Nostr by any technical means available. If only a single user makes a death threat.
Likely scenario? Probably not. But the authoritarian tone has been set.