The summary here is that the EU Commission has decided to head towards a sort of China-Lite style set of policies. It is now banning "disinformation" (what Chin

The summary here is that the EU Commission has decided to head towards a sort of China-Lite style set of policies. It is now banning "disinformation" (what China calls "rumours") using only the self-censorship requirements, instead of implementing a firewall. https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/QANDA_20_2348 https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/QANDA_... "> Platforms must mitigate against risks such as disinformation or election manipulation, cyber violence against women, or harms to minors online" (guess 'cyber violence' against men is OK). As is common now for EU law the definitions used are open to endless interpretation - the Digital Services Act only applies to "very large" platforms, requires them to implement "risk based" mitigations against "disinformation" and yet must be "carefully balanced" against restrictions on freedom of expression, although of course this is impossible, because the rule is all about restricting freedom of expression. It's not only in the area of information control that the EU is following China. https://dailysceptic.org/2022/10/22/eu-sets-out-commitment-to-lockdowns-vaccine-passports-mask-mandates-and-legally-binding-global-pandemic-treaty/ https://dailysceptic.org/2022/10/22/eu-sets-out-commitment-t... "> It also encourages governments to counter “misinformation” in the media and online to ensure “clear, consistent and evidence-based messaging demonstrating the continued safety and effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines”. It links worries about vaccine safety with “anti-Western and anti-EU narratives” and with websites which also go off-narrative on the Ukraine war." It has recently laid out a re-commitment to pre-emptive lockdowns and mask mandates that attempt to stop tiny numbers of COVID infections growing, even though COVID is already endemic. The ideological nature of the rules can be seen in the fact that it strongly discourages travel bans, because eliminating internal borders is a political imperative for the EU, whilst also insisting on measures that proved to be useless. Anyway, the EU is going to say this to Twitter very shortly - continue banning anyone who makes the EU Commission officials unhappy (regardless of factuality, and without knowing exactly what such views are) or else we'll levy massive fines on you. We can assume a few possible outcomes: 1. Musk plays hardball and withdraws any corporate presence (offices, datacenters etc) in the EU, proceeds to allow free speech that the EU doesn't like, refuses to pay any fines. 2. USA gets free speech, EU gets officially mandated censorship. Unclear how this works given the basic Twitter model. 3. Musk folds and implements EU censorship globally.