The European Commission has adopted a new Gender Equality Strategy, which is seen as a vehicle for digital censorship. The strategy recognises gender-based violence as a systemic risk and includes acts that cause psychological harm or “suffering to women” if a social media post is deemed likely to cause “harm” to women, major online platforms like X and Meta would be pressured to remove it as “violence”. This move aligns with the European Commission's tendency to embed contested ideological positions into policy and frame dissent as a threat. It also identifies “LBTIQ+ women’ as a protected group and links gender equality efforts with other EU initiatives focused on sexual orientation. This strategy supports so-called “sexual and reproductive health and rights” referencing a recent pro-abortion European Citizens Initiative.