Not so long ago, and not in a galaxy far far away...
Elon Musk’s X became the first large online platform fined under the European Union’s Digital Services Act on Friday.
The European Commission announced that X would be fined nearly $140 million, with the potential to face “periodic penalty payments” if the platform fails to make corrections.
As expected, this camp fire became soon a forest fire.
'Fourth Reich': Musk Strikes Back At EU 'Tyrants' After X Fine
As Catherine Salgado reports for PJMedia.com, Musk also re-shared a post about Irish teacher Enoch Burke, who was jailed for refusing to use transgender pronouns, and later replied to another user, “So many politicians in Europe who are traitors to their own people.”
And Musk highlighted the fact that Meta has a verification program similar to X’s, yet the EU hasn’t onerously fined the more censorship-prone Meta.
The EU decision is not surprising. For a while now, the European Commission has been trying to impose bloc-wide censorship and control over the narrative. In the words of Pavel Durov, co-founder and the CTO of Telegram:
An older post of Elon Musk states that: The European Commission offered X an illegal secret deal: if we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us. The other platforms accepted that deal.
European Commission is the brain behind the chat control, or in other words forced mass surveillance and destruction of privacy, all in the name of the greater good.
The "Chat Control" proposal would mandate scanning of all private digital communications, including encrypted messages and photos. This threatens fundamental privacy rights and digital security for all EU citizens.
EU politicians exempt themselves from this surveillance under "professional secrecy" rules.
The European Commission is, as you probably don't know, one of the most high-morale organizations in the entire universe.
And it’s not only about X or Musk. The EU Commission is trying to flex its muscles in a period when Trump is visibly annoyed by the Europeans and minimizes their importance at every step, and in a period where the Ukraine project is going off the rails and the EU seems to be caught on the losing side of history.
