Commission gives Musk 24 hours to answer for “Disinformation” on X. Musk intervenes on BLM
What is the Digital Service Act for? To impose the censorship of the European Commission on the web. The proven proof came yesterday from the letter that the commissioner for economic activities Thierry Breton sent to X inviting him to intervene and directly censor the contents on the platform
Non-compliance with the DSA can cost a fine equal to 6% of X's global turnover, so we are talking about figures with many, many zeros. Breton's request is clear: take action against content that the EU deems illegal, with false and manipulated images that have been reported by the platform.
Breton also posted the letter on
Our policy is that everything is open source and transparent, an approach that I know the EU supports.
Please list the violations you allude to on , so that the public can see them.
Merci beaucoup.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 10, 2023
The point is interesting and will cause difficulties for the Commission: the letter wants to push towards a generalized crackdown on social communication, with X becoming, like Facebook, the a priori censor. This entails a liability of X on the one hand and, among other things, also a nice additional cost. The biased, arrogant, unprepared and partial “Fact checker”, however someone has to pay for it, and usually quite a bit.
In this way Musk instead shifts the burden of proof onto the Commission: let her give the list of "False" information and posts, so X will intervene. Therefore the responsibility, even political, to censor the contents passes to the Commission and if there are abuses and errors, which are almost inevitable, it will be their fault. Not only that: it is the Commission that has to pay the Fact Checkers (sorry, but I can't help but laugh as I write this term) and that has to justify itself when not facts, but opinions are censored.
Because the problem is not the facts, which are quite clear, but the opinions that are connected to them, extremely radicalized, divergent and often violent. However, for this reason there are criminal laws, which differ from country to country, which target behavior such as incitement to crime, and everyone is free, if they so desire, to request the intervention of the judicial authorities. Why does X have to do it?
However, Elon Musk has done something, but he will greatly annoy the entire "Politically Correct" establishment on both sides of the ocean. He decided to put a stop to the pro-Hamas support of Block Lives Matter, BLM, whose leaders supported Hamas attacks.
Your position is clear
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 10, 2023
Moreover, X gives the possibility of seeing exchanges that otherwise would not have been possible to see in such a direct way….
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