Summary
The EU plans to fine Elon Musk’s X over $1 billion for violating the Digital Services Act by failing to control disinformation and illicit content.
This would mark the first major penalty under the new law and could trigger a legal clash with Musk, who vowed to fight in court.
Regulators say the fine aims to deter other platforms. Tensions with the U.S. are rising, as X also faces a broader investigation.
Do it motherfuckers, I dare ya!
Good, make Musk lose as much money as possible
When are we going to learn that this doesn’t work.
Elon will make back that billion back in a short enough time that it won’t matter!
Start taking percentages of their income! Company needs to pay 30% of their revenue for ten years.
That’ll put the fear god in them!
That’ll put the fear god in them!
Did you mean “the fear of god” or are you polytheistic? Lol
Mhmm. Yes.
Nope they mean “the fear god”, a god made of fear.
Yeah that’s what I was implying asking if they were polytheistic, like they were referring to the fear god lol
Seriously, how much money will have been spent by EU to make this happen
The EU uses selective prosecution for political ambitions. We are all going to watch the trans-Atlantic relationship crumble.
What, and the US doesn’t? That last part is true, at least.
As if that wasn’t already in progress
I didn’t clarify that but yeah, it is. We’ve been watching it.
Brother, did you just discover what politics are, you’re like a babe in the woods, grow up
Selective as in going after the biggest, most important offenders first? I sure hope they do.
“Up to”, in the context of fining non-private entities, usually means the minimum possible (so probably like 50€) and a “next time it’s double!”
I would just outright ban all of this Nazis businesses
At this point in time absolutely. Plus a good old tar n feather session wouldn’t hurt
Twitter might as well be 4chan with how heavily I avoid that site now.
Twatter is 4chan gold.
whoa-in-a-disco.meme.pngIt’s worse. I’ve never actually avoided 4chan I just don’t go there. I actually avoid Twitter and have been for the past few years
Least 4chan creates memes
Let’s goooooooo
Fines should be $1 billion or more. What fines currently are discourage no one.
let’s see it.
Charge him with 500 counts, and bankrupt him.
Only a matter of time until this guy buys Reddit.
I call it in 2026. So glad I’m out of that place.
Just ban the whole damn Nazi platform.
They could leave it first, but yes.
EU does not have the balls to do it. Same as Democrats in US.
Sadly, you’re right. Although if the the extreme aggression coming from the US government continues, they might actually get prodded into doing something about it eventually.
At least they have the balls to impose 1 billion euro penalties.
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“Plans to” has as much value as “slams” when it comes to real world impact. I’d love to be proven wrong and have the new title become “actually fines”, but I have my doubts.
“Slams”. Look at what journalists did to our boy!
The difference is that the judicial branch needs to be thorough and build a case. Planning to is all they can do until they actually do.
If Shitter is found to do something illegal that should land them a fine that is what will happen.
There is a history of following through with huge fines https://www.theneweconomy.com/business/top-5-largest-fines-levied-on-tech-companies-by-the-european-commission
With the current (digital) regulatory landscape (e.g. GDPR, DMA, DSA and the AI Act that is entering into force in multiple stages right now), the EU has proven to be quite resolute and decisive with their fines and measures. This is all partof their digital de ade stategy and more legislation is coming to tame these tech behemoths. Yes, it isn’t always fast or efficiënt, but the EU seems to be only world power that actually has the balls to do something.
This reminds me of EDPB Guidelines that have been published last year. In it, the EDPB had said that in extreme cases, AI models that have been trained on unlawfully obtained data such as personal data without a ground of proxessing etc., nationale authorites may compel the violating developer to delete the whole model. I do not see it happening soon or often, but it is a very good sign that the European authority mentions this as a possible action and outcome in an official document.
I’m optimistic that it will happen eventually. The EU generally is moving with stuff like this, even though it is slow as fuck. But well, let’s see, not promising anything…
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What Russian bots? Not done with licking trumps ass?
or is willing to
Finally, I’ve been waiting for this.
It’s worth $33B isn’t it? Go higher please
Even a small hole can sink a ship
“Worth” only according to its owner, who paid himself to buy it from himself under a different org. Good luck finding an outside investor willing to spend $30B on it now that it’s turned into a hate pool with a shit revenue stream
That’s not the point. That’s the value at which the deal was made. Fine him more.
The last people to evaluate the company under the rules of fiduciary responsibility put the value at $10 billion.
Musk gets away with this because people believe his Ponzi schemes will make them rich. In a first world country he would be in prision for fraud.
