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EU and US turn up the heat on Elon Musk over Twitter
- malshe 4y agohttps://archive.ph/cx1y3 https://archive.ph/cx1y3
- malshe 4y agoNot sure how much I can reproduce here but this is the most relevant part from the article: The European Commission on Wednesday threatened Musk with a ban unless Twitter abides by strict content moderation rules, as US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen indicated that Washington was reviewing his purchase of the social network. The warning from Brussels came in a video call between Musk and Thierry Breton, the EU’s commissioner in charge of implementing the bloc’s digital rules, according to people with knowledge of the conversation. Breton told Musk that Twitter must adhere to a checklist of rules, including ditching an “arbitrary” approach to reinstating banned users, pursuing disinformation “aggressively” and agreeing to an “extensive independent audit” of the platform by next year. Musk was warned that unless he stuck to those rules Twitter risked infringing the EU’s new Digital Services Act, a new law that sets the global standard for how Big Tech must police content on the internet. Breton reiterated Twitter could face a Europe-wide ban or fines of up to 6 per cent of global turnover if it breached the law.
- christkv 4y agoThe European Commission can go pound sand and I say that as a European. The attempts by the political elite of Europe creating their little united states of Europe with no accountability to the citizens will fail.