Posted on 12/06/2025 9:52:36 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The EU has slapped Elon Musk with a $140 million fine for refusing to censor content on his social-media platform X, in contravention of the bloc’s controversial Digital Services Act (DSA).
The hefty fine, announced by Bloomberg, is the first to be issued under the 2023 law, with EU lawmakers promising further investigations and fines for internet companies that refuse to comply with its rules.
Musk is accused of “misleading” users and failing to provide the EU with access to user data.
Breitbart reports, “According to the Commission’s statement, X was found to have misled users with its paid-for blue checkmark verification symbol, failed to provide researchers with access to data, and did not properly set up an advertising repository. The fine, while lower than expected, is still set to escalate tensions between the EU and the White House over free speech and tech regulation.”
Vice President JD Vance took to X to slam the EU for its actions, which he described as “garbage.”
“Rumors swirling that the EU commission will fine X hundreds of millions of dollars for not engaging in censorship. The EU should be supporting free speech not attacking American companies over garbage.”
Under the DSA, the EU can impose fines of as much as six percent of an online platform’s annual global revenue for failing to address what it deems to be illegal content, “disinformation,” or transparency issues.
Several other major US tech firms are also being investigated under the DSA, including Apple, Google, and Meta.
In recent months, the EU has handed out substantial fines against Apple and Meta under its digital antitrust rules and against Google and Apple under standard competition law.
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Trying to censor Americans is an act of war.
We should immediately stop all aid of any kind to the EU—at a minimum.
These EU countries ARE NOT OUR ALLIES. They are totalitarian dictatorships ! !
What if Musk refused to pay, what could the EU do to him, confiscate the assets of X in EU Countries, that wouldn’t stop people living in the EU from accessing X.
I agree with you, Trump should intervene, if the EU wont’ back down, then no more money for Ukraine and NATO, defend yourselves.
The EU goes where the money is and Musk has lots of it. Like locusts they will feast and then move on.
I wonder if that be corrected by X no longer serving EU or would that result in an even larger fine.
Time to start bombing Brussels.
F EU
They will regret it.
50% tariffs on autos from EU.
EU are the new Soviets!
FU EU.
If Europe is going to be a dictatorship, they might as well have Putin as the dictator.
I will say this about The Iron Curtain, at least the countries behind it stayed more or less homogenous.
Not true. Islam was one of the reasons they collapsed.
EUSSR
Netanyahu: ‘We Must Control X and TikTok’
And an oldie from 2015:
[Israeli] Government anti-Semitism conference endorses net censorship
Not true. Islam was one of the reasons they collapsed.
What do you mean. Poland today is still almost 90% Polish.
Your post is valid.
Several nations want to issue orders to US citizens.
It is unacceptable regardless of the source.
"X has 90 working days to submit to the Commission an action plan setting out the necessary measures to address the infringements of Articles 39 and 40(12) DSA, relating to the advertising repository and to the access to public data for researchers. The Board of Digital Services will have one month from receipt of X's action plan to give its opinion. The Commission will have another month to give its final decision and set a reasonable implementation period.It is not just the "fine" meted out by a supra-national government's tiny group atop thw whole, but the demand for firther COMPLIANCE."Failure to comply with the non-compliance decision may lead to periodic penalty payments. The Commission continues to engage with X to ensure compliance with the decision and with the DSA more generally."
Source: Commission fines X €120 million under the Digital Services Act From the European Commission, 4 December 2025
From the action, "...the Commission has issued a fine of €120 million to X for breaching its transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA). The breaches include the deceptive design of its ‘blue checkmark', the lack of transparency of its advertising repository, and the failure to provide access to public data for researchers."
The nosy, noisy EC has not gone through a court proceeding. This is totalitarian behavior, basically, from a group which exhibits avarice in much.
And here they are:
“Time to start bombing Brussels.“
Musk’s got rockets with remarkable accuracy. Just sayin’.
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