EU Tries Desperately To Rein In Elon Musk

[Kamaji]

Europe Tries Desperately To Rein In Elon Musk Because Free Speech Threatens The Regime’s Grip On Groupthink

If Musk emboldens dissident voices, then entrenched interests could be at risk of losing their power.

BY: SAMUEL MANGOLD-LENETT
DECEMBER 01, 2022

The European Union (EU) reportedly threatened to ban Twitter from the continent on Wednesday if the company’s new owner, Elon Musk, doesn’t adhere to strict content moderation guidelines.

This warning shot was fired by EU industry chief Thierry Breton, who indicated that the guidelines Musk’s Twitter must follow were detailed in the European Commission’s Digital Services Act (DSA). These guidelines include surrendering the platform to “independent audits” conducted by “independent” third parties and the implementation of “mechanisms to adapt swiftly and efficiently in reaction to crises affecting public security or public health,” among other things.

Breton indicated that in order to prevent Twitter from being banned in Europe, the tech entrepreneur will have to part ways with his “arbitrary” approach to reinstating the accounts of people previously banned from the platform. Musk must also surrender the platform to an “extensive independent audit” by 2023. Reportedly, Breton told Musk that the platform must “reinforce content moderation” and “aggressively” root out disinformation.

On one hand, the EU’s stipulations sound somewhat reasonable; after all, the DSA requires Twitter to report if criminals are using the platform to conduct illegal activities. On the other, this move is utterly deranged and should not be tolerated. Who is the EU to strong-arm an American company?

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Source:  https://thefederalist.com/2022/12/01/europe-tries-desperately-to-rein-in-elon-musk-because-free-speech-threatens-the-regimes-grip-on-groupthink/

[Free Vulcan]

Not even a pretense of balance or fairness of having Musk play by the same rules as the former owners.

Comply to our ideological catechism or else.

[240B]

YOU WORK FOR US! WE ARE THE MASTERS! <- either acknowledge our superiority or be banned
This would raise the status of Twitter as an 'outlawed' platform.
People LOVE outlaws. I do not think it is possible for the EU to ban twitter.
If Russia, Iran, and China cannot ban it, then how will the EU.
All they will do is to force it underground.