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EU asks Elon Musk to prove X isn't breaking Europe's disinformation rules
- jauntywundrkind 3y agoNo fan of what's happened with X, but I quite dislike the legal starting place of making folks prove their innocence. Anyone have a link to Thierry Breton's letter, in text not picture form? https://twitter.com/ThierryBreton/status/1711808891757944866 https://twitter.com/ThierryBreton/status/1711808891757944866 The Musk quote from a year ago on the DSA efforts is fantastic. https://www.politico.eu/article/musk-reached-out-to-breton-over-twitters-content-moderation-compliance/ https://www.politico.eu/article/musk-reached-out-to-breton-o...
- clouddrover 3y agoIt's not about proving innocence, it's about proving compliance. Many regulations require proof of compliance.
- rsynnott 3y ago> but I quite dislike the legal starting place of making folks prove their innocence. That's not what's happening here. In general, a lot of regulation works via requiring companies to do things to prevent a bad outcome. Primary enforcement is via either audit (ie "show us what you're doing") or reporting (ie "you must tell us what you're doing on a regular basis"). A banking regulator, say, doesn't generally wait until it has examples of money laundering at bank A _before_ it asks bank A what it's doing to prevent money laundering. This is all generally pretty quiet and unremarkable, and doesn't get much coverage. When you see a regulator actually prosecuting a company, that's _kind of the failure mode_.
- Zigurd 3y agoCommercial entities "prove their innocence" all the time.