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X blocks EU Commission's advertising account after €120M fine
- bediger4000 11mo agoTit-for-tat, justifiable maybe in terms of a simple understanding of game theory, but not justifiable in terms of looking like you're cooperating with authorities. Another red flag that Musk considers himself a ruler, and not merely a leader, which is after all, just a citizen.
- NotGMan 11mo ago[flagged]
- cinntaile 11mo agoThe law definitely was voted for. Enforcing the law obviously doesn't require additional voting.
- nsoqm 11mo agoIt was? I'm a citizen of the EU and I don't remember the DSA referendum. Maybe I was out that day.
- arielcostas 11mo agoWe the europeans voted a group of MEPs, who voted to approve such regulation. Or do you also vote every single law your country passes?
- nsoqm 11mo agoNo, but I don’t pretend the process is democratic.
- happymellon 11mo agoThats fair enough if you don't know what democracy is.
- CamperBob2 11mo agoDemocracy gets you a Donald Trump. Twice. How much democracy can you take?
- bdangubic 11mo agothat much worse than “hope&change” or senile grandpa or gw or fucking bill…???! it is like america woke up one morning and was like “wow, trump is bad…” :)
- happymellon 11mo agoNot sure what your point is.
- CamperBob2 11mo agoThe point is that there is nothing magical or inherently virtuous about democracy. It's always been the best of a bad lot of alternatives, but that was before social media made it possible for bad-faith actors to exploit it so effectively. Giving stupid people the same political power as everyone else has always been a bad idea, and now it amounts to a suicide pact.
- hulitu 11mo ago> We the europeans voted a group of MEPs, who voted to approve such regulation I voted another MEP.
- arielcostas 11mo agoThat's how democracy works, a majority of people voted those MPs. Still doesn't make the entire process illegitimate.
- londons_explore 11mo agoThe voting chain between a typical EU citizens vote at the ballot box and the wording of this legislation is super long. And anyway, I don't believe X is accused of breaking any specific written EU law - at least nobody seems to be sharing which specific law.
- hadrien01 11mo agoThey're in breach of the DSA. Here's the Commission's press release: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_2934 https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_...
- lm28469 11mo agoYeah I mean that's kind of the point of representative democracy, you want us to go and vote for every single law? That would be a full time activity
- cinntaile 11mo agoI'm curious about your thought process here. What makes you so distrustful of the EU that you assumed this was a fine without a legal justification?
- mzhaase 11mo agoI did.
- juliusceasar 11mo agoNobody in the USA has voted for the ongoing idiocracy, and yet here we are. The same idiots are telling the EU howto ruin their countries.
- bediger4000 11mo agoAs a US citizen, I disagree. Lots of votes cast November 2024, resulting in both a popular vote and Electoral College victory for Trump. He had a term before, he was impeached twice, and indicted several times. We voted for it several different times and ways.
- Larrikin 11mo agoThere were a ton of votes cast to stop kids from being vaccinated against childhood diseases, to block funding to the rural hospitals serving those communities, raise taxes via tariffs, and to let government accounts troll with memes. Those communities decided those were all worth it if brown and black people suffered. This "poor" farmer claims to be sad about it in front of his flags of support of the administration. He refuses to understand what he actually voted for. But he is an adult that absolutely voted for it https://dataviz.whro.org/virginia-farmer-on-edge/index.html https://dataviz.whro.org/virginia-farmer-on-edge/index.html
- finaard 11mo agoAs a EU citizen: My only complaint is that the fines are not large enough, and enforcement often takes too long.
- pjmlp 11mo agoI surely did vote for this kind of decision. If X feel like leaving EU, great, I already left that extreme right wing propaganda long time ago.
- saubeidl 11mo agoI did. I wish the EU would finally show some teeth though and ban this Neonazi-owned disinformation platform though.
- beardyw 11mo agoFor those who missed it: > ... since October 2023, the Commission has suspended all paid advertising or services on X.
- SilverElfin 11mo ago> Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the EU executive of trying to amplify its own social media post about the fine on X by trying “to take advantage of an exploit in our Ad Composer.” For those that haven’t followed Nikita Bier (head of X product) on Twitter, he’s a childish and immature person. The way he talks about changes at X is completely unprofessional. So this type of deceptive revenge action is completely in character. I guess Elon hired him for that reason.
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- dlahoda 11mo agowdym by unprofessional in this instance?
- SilverElfin 11mo agoFor example, relating to the broken account location feature: https://x.com/nikitabier/status/1991723005454741995 https://x.com/nikitabier/status/1991723005454741995
- DaSHacka 11mo ago[flagged]
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- ChrisArchitect 11mo ago[dupe] Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46181306 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46181306