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Musk is told his platform, now known as X, must comply with new laws designed to combat fake news and Russian propaganda

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[–] MaxPower@feddit.de 159 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Oh ffs, stop warning him, he already knows and still does not comply. He does not care. Just throw the hammer at him, this he will understand.

[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 58 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Don't worry, EU strikes very slowly, but hard.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago

Can we not do this? It's so pathetic.

Just like how the US supposedly, "grinds slow but grinds fine". No. A literal traitor having YEARS of freedom is NOT justice of any sort. Warning a rich piece of shit that they're violating laws for the 1100th time IS NOT justice.

Stop pretending laws are applied remotely evenly or remotely expeditiously on the rich. It's blatantly and obviously not true.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago

It's more of a calendar thing I'm afraid.

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"You haff ignored the requisite 10 varnings. You only haff three more varnings before ve vill be forced to fine you €6B"

[–] odium@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

*6M

It's usually a small amount in the millions

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 years ago

Not necessarily in Europe, Google got multiples fines above a billion for example.

[–] Spiderfarmer@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I’m just happy to see the EU take these important first steps towards actually punishing him and others like him. They’re the only governmental organization around the world that’s actually doing something thoughtful.

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[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 73 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In before Musk calls EU a pedophile.

[–] Gamey@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

I mean, he likes to defend pedophiles!

[–] spudwart@spudwart.com 53 points 2 years ago (4 children)

He knows, it's why he bought twitter.

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[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago (26 children)

🤞 Please let him be imprisoned by some obscure German anti Nazi law please🤞

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

If they’re gonna do that they need to start with the AfD

[–] Gamey@feddit.de 1 points 2 years ago

Twitter actually got sued in Germany for failure to moderate hate speech already, that could cost him 33 billion euros!

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[–] Ddhuud@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I really hope Elon given the ultimatum would go for the nuclear option and shut down Twitter in Europe.

It wouldn't even be out of character, I can imagine him vomiting some "free speech" nonsense on his way out.

The company stock price would halve, but at the speed it is already going down it wouldn't even register.

[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The company stock price would halve.

Elon took it private, it doesn't have a stock price anymore. But it does have a valuation, which is basically it's appraisal value, and that's already significantly lower than what he paid for it.

[–] Gamey@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

It was valued at roughtly a third but that was before the rebrand, now it's probably quite a bit lower!

[–] drekly@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago

Why does anyone even still use it? I never saw the appeal even before the takeover, now it baffles me. It's such a horrible interface

[–] Frogodendron@beehaw.org 22 points 2 years ago

Don’t warn. Act. Fine him. It won’t hurt him much, but would generate additional funds for European needs. Actively create Fediverse accounts that interact with the public. And so on…

[–] banana_meccanica@feddit.it 18 points 2 years ago

Maybe they should stop making small fines of $ millions and start applying $$$ billions in fines.

[–] set_secret@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago

nothing like a stern warning to swiftly correct a billionaire megalomaniac destructive antics in my experience.

[–] shiveyarbles@beehaw.org 9 points 2 years ago

X, now rated #1 in disinformation!

[–] beef_curds@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago

That's it Mr. Musk, sir. You're officially on notice. (I hope that's ok, sir?)

[–] eee@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago

Elon Musk: "this is a feature, not a bug"

[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've been following Scott Adams (The Dilbert guy. No, not Jim Davis. The Dilbert guy!) and this is obviously misinformation and a hoax. The only accurate news comes from X. If you still get your news from the leftist media, you're being brainwashed.

(obviously sarcasm. Downvote me for following Adams, not for misunderstanding my sarcasm.)

[–] SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Scott Adams? You mean the guy who writes books about obvious self-insert characters who are so much smarter than everyone else because they are influencers?

[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 6 points 2 years ago

I was so Happy (capital intended) when he was featured on Behind the Bastards. I didn't think he was interesting enough to merit even one episode, but now the host is reading Scott's books, and they are complete dogshit.

Scott's rationalwiki entry is a joy to read.

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Ban, or ban not. There is no warn.

[–] gbin@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago

Late stage enshitification

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