EU Charges Platform X with Digital Services Act Violations
1278 sats \ 20 comments \ @TomK 12 Jul news
EU Accuses Elon Musk's Platform X of Breaking Digital Services Law
The European Commission has announced that Platform X, owned by Elon Musk, has violated the Digital Services Act (DSA). This conclusion comes after a thorough investigation into the platform, formerly known as Twitter.
The DSA mandates that major online platforms must combat illegal content and maintain transparency in content moderation and advertising. The Commission identified three specific violations by Platform X, which could lead to fines amounting to 6% of the company's global annual revenue.
One major violation involves the platform's blue checkmark verification system. The Commission found it misleading, as anyone can now purchase verification, undermining its original purpose of authenticating noteworthy users. This change, the Commission argues, deceives users and impacts their ability to make informed decisions about account authenticity.
Additionally, Platform X failed to comply with advertising transparency regulations. The company did not provide adequate access to its ad repository, preventing users from seeing crucial details about advertisers, including ad content, target demographics, and reach.
Lastly, the platform was found to restrict access to public data for researchers, hindering independent studies.
These findings are preliminary, and Platform X now has the opportunity to respond. If confirmed, the company may face heightened regulatory scrutiny and substantial fines.
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112 sats \ 1 reply \ @IamSINGLE 12 Jul
Elon will take it for advertisement of X. Negative advertising!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 12 Jul
The EUSSR exposes itself
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56 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinAbhi 12 Jul
Elon will fight it out. He will not accept it. 6% is huge even for the world's richest man, I think.
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45 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 12 Jul
JUST IN: Elon Musk says "the European Commission offered X an illegal secret deal: if we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us.
The other platforms accepted that deal.
X did not."
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45 sats \ 5 replies \ @SatsMate 12 Jul
Even with Elon's intent to make X the free speech platform of the world, there will be certain jurisdictions that he will always need to bend the knee for.
Nostr I'm unsure how they could bend the knee to the EU and other totalitarian countries.
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0 sats \ 4 replies \ @anon 12 Jul
there will be certain jurisdictions that he will always need to bend the knee for.
Why? Anyone can simply refuse to comply. This is the internet: unless the EU wants to censor the internet, Twitter will still be trivially accessible in the EU.
Quite the contrary it should be illegal for US companies to comply with censorship demands like these. And politicians and ISP employees who help censor should just get arrested if they ever enter the US.
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45 sats \ 3 replies \ @02bcd3eeb0 12 Jul
I think it would cost more than the fine to move all their EU server infrastructure to the US.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @TomK OP 13 Jul
There'll be a Tor and VPN revolution soon. But not in totally compliant EU. I have no idea why nearly nobody here is fighting back against these WEF commies.
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45 sats \ 1 reply \ @02bcd3eeb0 13 Jul
We need to be realistic - a huge percentage of people love the WEF commies - whether it's brainwashing or they are just young, idealistic, and gullible. They will fight us until they have heart attacks from their metabolic diseases and mRNA vaccines.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 13 Jul
yes that's true, Klaus' programs are very popular. but it's more the stupidity of the masses and they always submit to power. That's why we can only work in a decentralized way in small units at the family level, etc.
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45 sats \ 7 replies \ @Bell_curve 12 Jul
EU is prosecuting dissidents and outsiders
https://m.stacker.news/39363
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68 sats \ 5 replies \ @clr 12 Jul
I don't like globalism but I don't want to go back to patriotism. People who think they are superior or they "belong together" because of a birth accident or whatever.
Bitcoin and individual sovereignty are the way forward.
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13 sats \ 4 replies \ @TomK OP 12 Jul
when was it actually drummed into you that patriotism is something negative? people are looking for common symbols to find a common ground, to create something that looks like civilization and to have security to act into the future. everything else will always fail
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23 sats \ 3 replies \ @clr 12 Jul
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45 sats \ 2 replies \ @Bell_curve 12 Jul
Many problems with globalist agenda
A movement toward world government. It’s like EU parliament but the entire world 🌎
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13 sats \ 1 reply \ @clr 12 Jul
I agree. But a regression to nationalism/patriotism is not going to solve that.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 12 Jul
We see patriotism in Euro 2024
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113 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 12 Jul
https://m.stacker.news/39364
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 12 Jul
That is the level of the #eu-socialists. These scum should be fought at all levels!
https://m.stacker.news/39425
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK OP 13 Jul
and now the whole world will see that the EU is suppressing freedom of expression. https://m.stacker.news/39537
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