Breaking News: The EU is said to be readying major penalties against X, Elon Musk’s platform, over a law that targets illicit content and disinformation.
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He's probably just going to blame his xAI or the people voting or liking or whatever floats his boat at the time. What if it's AI causing the problem, then what? 🤔
It seems like this is the fastest way to get it "banned". Fine it as heavily as they can, which would essentially force Musk to pull all their business and services from Europe. I do hope they are also working on an internet infrastructure ban of the service. You know, "in case" he won't pay.
Fantastic news. Seeing that he has been an instrumental part of DESTROYING this COUNTRY, DESTROYING the lives of HARDWORKING public servants, DESTROYING our democracy, I personally hope you can pay him back for us.
The more obvious action is to end the (almost) zero tax on digital services and to end the IP racket with a true right-to-repair law. Ireland will have to find an honest revenue stream but skimming a low percentage to screw everyone else was never acceptable.
They need to look at Facebook too. We've noticed on our minor child's FB page they are flashing images of graphic pornography. It flashes on his screen for 5 sec. and disappears. No one's doing anything about it. It disappears too quickly to take a pic. Where are the internet protections???
Meta would be hit hard by the loss of European revenue. Europe has lots of ways to make life difficult for such firms short of banning them from European markets, including taxation and competition policy. This allows it to calibrate the torment, gradually tightening the screws if need be-Economist
Trump may not have the hand to win this play. Before WWII, too much of Europe and the West was asleep, unconcerned or too afraid to stand up to Hitler. Not so today. Still super scary that Putin and other authoritarian nations we not on his tariff list.
I would like to see xand meta banned everywhere. I'm struggling to seeing value in them at all. They have become nothing more than weapons of mass destruction.
I hope they go after Meta next for banning people & shuttering accounts for no good reason whatsoever yet allowing right wing disinformation to run rampant on their site with NO fact checking or closing of their accounts! They went 10 yrs on my page and suddenly memes I got on FB struck terror. WTF
Fine the fkr then create a European platform along with our oeb versions of Fbook and Amazon AirbnB Uber Apple Google. .. We have to stop stuffing money into American pockets
Tariffs and graduated sales taxes negotiated by Congress with Canada and Mexico as part of trade agreements may be beneficial for the poor and middle class over time.
Governments going after "misinformation" or "hate speech" is always suspect IMO. I think I'm good w/ having the likes of Trump make such determinations...
I have deactivated Facebook. But I miss the old Facebook , not the newer sponsor ad book thatvis turnedinto. I miss the social interaction it had with family & friends across the world.
It was free and also not federated. Therefore, we were the product. We were sold to advertisers, once we have FB enough to make us saleable.
That's going to happen with any centralised social media with an algorithm.
Social media is a bad idea because people are awful.
Prvt msg grps may be the way.
Old habits die hard. Unless a collective reaction against American platforms emerges, there has to be some sort of incentive to switch to a new platform.
musk has made it clear free speech is not the goal. thought control is the goal. manipulation is the goal. extremism is the goal. thats what the right wing does with media. the first good decision lately was by france to bar la pen from election. next to kick out right wing misinformation
excellant. usa should take a hint. europe sees what america does not. which is the misinformation narratives that percolate through right wing and far right wing media border and sometimes morph straight into lies. thats what right wing media seems to get to. further and further distortion
So much content on X is unhinged. Lies & conspiracies about prominent Democrats and those who oppose President Musk and VP Trump. Unbelievably unhinged rubbish.
AI: The article speculates that EU action is politically motivated rather than law enforcement. Our summary balances this by highlighting the Digital Services Act, X’s policy changes since Musk’s acquisition, and noting that similar investigations affect other platforms. https://veridex.news/summary_article/d2bd8c9c-81cb-4fed-a982-868bebcab136
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Hey @booker.senate.gov Could you please work on that?
Why didn't we think of that?
These Europeans seem to have something.
#proud
The first instinct always seems to be to restrict speech.
Lies, they're called lies.. say it
Go ahead. Do it. Scratch the itch
We know you want to
Wait. What?
You mean I can't lie my ass off in Europe?
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That Apartheid Nazi has tried to buy elections in Europe through X and contributions to the alt right.
Everyone has had enough of this play date
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20250328-the-people-boycotting-travel-to-the-us?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
Read Report on Subject of Manufactures by Alexander Hamilton
https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-10-02-0001-0007
That's going to happen with any centralised social media with an algorithm.
Social media is a bad idea because people are awful.
Prvt msg grps may be the way.
Someone.
Anyone.
https://veridex.news/summary_article/d2bd8c9c-81cb-4fed-a982-868bebcab136
1. Surround Self with Billionaires
2. Fire employees
3. Surrender to Putin
4. Abandon Allies
5. $5 Trillion in Tax Cuts for wealthy
6. Increase Debt by $5 Trillion
7. Raise sales taxes $600 Billion annually
8. Cut Social Security
9. Slash Medicaid
10. Punish Disloyalty