Posted on 05/28/2023 9:28:14 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
Senior EU officials were furious on Friday after Twitter owner Elon Musk pulled the platform out of the bloc’s online censorship project.
Elon Musk has pulled Twitter out of the EU’s “Code of Practice”, a pro-censorship project aimed at countering so-called “disinformation” online, prompting fury from those in Brussels.
It comes after months of mixed messages from the billionaire, who had publicly stated that he wanted to support free speech on the platform while repeatedly insisting that he would support the European Union in its pro-censorship crusade.
According to a report by POLITICO, it appears that the Big Tech entrepreneur may be prioritising his freedom of speech committment over pleasing EU overlords, with the publication detailing rumours that Musk was pulling Twitter out of the voluntary anti-disinformation project.
This was later confirmed by EU Internal Market Commissar Thierry Breton, who wrote on Twitter that the platform had indeed left the project.
The Frenchman however went on to say that legal obligations for Musk’s company to censor content disliked by the European Union remains, echoing previous threats made by him that the platform would be thrown out of the bloc entirely if it does not submit to Brussels’ demands.
“You can run but you can’t hide,” he wrote. “Beyond voluntary commitments, fighting disinformation will be legal obligation under [Digital Services Act] as of August 25.”
“Our teams will be ready for enforcement,” he went on to threaten.
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I still don’t trust Elon, but he is headed in the right direction. Sometimes.
“I still don’t trust Elon, but he is headed in the right direction. Sometimes.”
Certainly better than anyone else in that business, for sure.
Free speech isn’t compatible with libtardism
Disinformation is anything a panel of knuckleheads do not agree with.
The EU has bigger problems to worry about.
Free speech does not include things that the government doesn’t want you to say.
Not anymore, anyways.
Indeed.
Good call Elon. That is how to spread Free Speech.
“I’ve been kicked IN better establishments than this”
Those running the government don’t like counter narratives to their propaganda.
EU diatribe in response sounds like right out of Zhongnanhai.
The powers that be are perfectly right to fear free speech.
When we are free to associate and to communicate, the current public order cannot stand.
“You can run but you can’t hide,”
StarLink!
The EU = The Fourth Reich.
Dear Tyrants:
You have plenty of government websites where you could post what you want your subjects to believe.
I simply can’t afford to censor hundreds of millions of people.
Blocking my website will not obscure the takeover of your cities by colonists from Third World countries.
You will not be able to censor the Koran.
E. Musk
I wonder how many conservatives are still banned on Twitter.
Soo, “The Earth is flat” is disinformation. Is it not?
If so, why aren’t THOSE idiots blocked?
(I’m not advocating for censorship, just pointing out the hypocrisy)
Hmmm, EU. Worry about twitter or Russian boots crushing your faces into the dirt? What to do?
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