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Musk threatens 'response' against individuals who imposed €120M X penalty

16 points by Teever 11mo ago

rsynnott 11mo ago
> "The EU woke Stasi commissars are about to understand the full meaning of the 'Streisand Effect,'" Musk fumed. The "Streisand effect" refers to when an attempt to keep something discreet backfires. Ordinarily, I'd say that Politico explaining what the Streisand effect is was a _little_ patronising. But Musk clearly doesn't know what it is, so...
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DivingForGold 11mo ago
https://archive.ph/HeC4E https://archive.ph/HeC4E
Zigurd 11mo ago
Don't underestimate the extent to which this is bothrsome to Elon. Elon went to great length to do a financially dubious deal in which investor-backed X.ai paid full price for Twitter. Rolling Twitter into an AI bubble valuation company saved Twitter investors from having to admit their investments were losing bets. You would think X.ai investors would be displeased. But everybody's looking real good on paper. Nobody wants to be reminded what a lousy deal the Twitter LBO was, especially when AI valuations look a bit vulnerable.
- ben_w 11mo ago
  Mm. Given what the fine is for, violating transparency rules, I think that there has to be some pretty important skeletons in this particular closet for it to be a hill worth fighing over. Mixed metaphors aside, Musk doing this for a good reason of course assumes Musk understands X.com's skeletons better than he understands Diablo's gameplay.
- tim333 11mo ago
  X.ai is currently #2 on the LLM leaderboard. It's probably not so bad for the investors.
bediger4000 11mo ago
This category of response means that Musk sees himself as above laws, that he's a ruler, not a citizen. Concerning!
general1465 11mo ago
> The Trump Administration has been clear: we oppose censorship and will challenge burdensome regulations that target US companies abroad. We expect the EU to engage in fair, open, & reciprocal trade — & nothing less. Oh wow, US companies are required to follow non-US laws outside of US. Concerning...
rasz 11mo ago
> The Trump Administration has been clear: we oppose censorship and will challenge burdensome regulations that target US companies abroad. We expect the EU to engage in fair, open, & reciprocal trade — & nothing less. Except for mother russia, they are fine to do whatever https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/russia-restricts-facetime-in-latest-step-to-control-online-communications https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/russia-restricts-facetime...
tastyface 11mo ago
Musk: EU must be abolished (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/12/06/musk-eu-must-be-abolished https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/12/06/musk-eu-must-...) Someday, I hope to see this man dragged away in cuffs to face justice. And just as a reminder, he is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths from the USAID shutdown: https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths/ https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hund... It's utterly appalling that some people still discuss Twitter, Grok, and SpaceX with excitement.
croes 11mo ago
> "The EU woke Stasi commissars are about to understand the full meaning of the 'Streisand Effect,'" Musk fumed. The "Streisand effect" refers to when an attempt to keep something discreet backfires. They try to keep it so discreet that they posted in on Twitter. And woke and Stasi in one sentence proves that Musk doesn't have a clue what neither woke nor the Stasi is

16 points by Teever 11mo ago

> "The EU woke Stasi commissars are about to understand the full meaning of the 'Streisand Effect,'" Musk fumed. The "Streisand effect" refers to when an attempt to keep something discreet backfires. Ordinarily, I'd say that Politico explaining what the Streisand effect is was a _little_ patronising. But Musk clearly doesn't know what it is, so...

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DivingForGold 11mo ago

https://archive.ph/HeC4E https://archive.ph/HeC4E

Zigurd 11mo ago

Don't underestimate the extent to which this is bothrsome to Elon. Elon went to great length to do a financially dubious deal in which investor-backed X.ai paid full price for Twitter. Rolling Twitter into an AI bubble valuation company saved Twitter investors from having to admit their investments were losing bets. You would think X.ai investors would be displeased. But everybody's looking real good on paper. Nobody wants to be reminded what a lousy deal the Twitter LBO was, especially when AI valuations look a bit vulnerable.

ben_w 11mo ago
Mm. Given what the fine is for, violating transparency rules, I think that there has to be some pretty important skeletons in this particular closet for it to be a hill worth fighing over. Mixed metaphors aside, Musk doing this for a good reason of course assumes Musk understands X.com's skeletons better than he understands Diablo's gameplay.
tim333 11mo ago
X.ai is currently #2 on the LLM leaderboard. It's probably not so bad for the investors.

bediger4000 11mo ago

This category of response means that Musk sees himself as above laws, that he's a ruler, not a citizen. Concerning!

general1465 11mo ago

rasz 11mo ago

> The Trump Administration has been clear: we oppose censorship and will challenge burdensome regulations that target US companies abroad. We expect the EU to engage in fair, open, & reciprocal trade — & nothing less. Except for mother russia, they are fine to do whatever https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/russia-restricts-facetime-in-latest-step-to-control-online-communications https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/russia-restricts-facetime...

tastyface 11mo ago

Musk: EU must be abolished (https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/12/06/musk-eu-must-be-abolished https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/12/06/musk-eu-must-...) Someday, I hope to see this man dragged away in cuffs to face justice. And just as a reminder, he is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths from the USAID shutdown: https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths/ https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hund... It's utterly appalling that some people still discuss Twitter, Grok, and SpaceX with excitement.

croes 11mo ago

> "The EU woke Stasi commissars are about to understand the full meaning of the 'Streisand Effect,'" Musk fumed. The "Streisand effect" refers to when an attempt to keep something discreet backfires. They try to keep it so discreet that they posted in on Twitter. And woke and Stasi in one sentence proves that Musk doesn't have a clue what neither woke nor the Stasi is