Legal Insurrection by Leslie Eastman May 30, 2023
French Digital Minister threatens to ban Twitter if it doesn’t follow EU rules.Big tech billionaire and Twitter owner Elon Musk has pulled Twitter out of an ‘ant-disinformation’ agreement that masks itself as an insidious censorship project.
Twitter has pulled out of the European Union’s voluntary code of practice regarding online disinformation as the company’s owner continues posting content that could be flagged under a forthcoming EU law.
The social media site’s withdrawal from the EU’s agreement on disinformation could signal owner Elon Musk is preparing to cease operations in Europe entirely, Euractiv reported, as a new law — the Digital Services Act (DSA)— is set to take effect in August. The law, which establishes requirements for monitoring and flagging disinformation, would make the now voluntary agreement mandatory for large social media sites.
An EU official told Euractiv they were “waiting for this” and “it was purely a matter of time” before Musk withdrew from the agreement.
European officials are behaving exactly as you would expect.
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