CNBC: EU official warns Musk he’ll have to ‘fly by our rules’ as he buys Twitter
* Thierry Breton, EU commissioner for the internal market, said Twitter will have to “fly by our rules” after Elon Musk’s $44 billion purchase of the company.
* Tech companies will face greater pressure to remove illegal content under the EU’s incoming Digital Services Act.
* Companies can be fined up to 6% of global annual revenues for violations of the rules, which are expected to come into force in 2024.
A top European Union official had a warning for Elon Musk Friday about his $44 purchase of Twitter, telling the billionaire he will have to play by the rules.
After a cryptic tweet from Musk suggesting he’d completed his acquisition of Twitter, Thierry Breton, the European commissioner for the internal market, warned Musk that he will have to comply with the bloc’s new digital regulations.
“The bird is freed,” Musk tweeted. In response, Breton quote-tweeted Musk saying: “In Europe, the bird will fly by our rules.”
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WNU Editor: This EU commissioner is sending a message to Elon Musk that they do not want people like Donald Trump back on the platform.
In the end I think we will be seeing two types of Twitter. One for the EU, and another one for the rest of the world.
Brussels Warns Elon Musk's Twitter That 'Bird Will Fly By EU Rules'
EU Commissioner Warns Musk That Twitter Must ‘Fly by Our Rules’ -- Bloomberg
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Europe Warns Twitter's Elon Musk: The Bird Flies by Our Rules -- CNET
EU Commissioner to Elon Musk: Twitter will play by our rules -- Politico
Levels of Twitter. One a play ground Twitter for the kids including adults.
ReplyDeleteAnother more exclusive Twitter for the well behaved. Still can be raucous but without the name calling. That’s for the advertisers who want to associate with a more decorous crowd. Misbehave often enough and you kicked back to the playground.
he who pays the piper calls the tune
ReplyDeleteWhat is wrong with DJT?
ReplyDelete1) Mean tweets?
2) Russian Collusion?
3) Bad Person?
1) Calling Germany on the carpet for buying the bulk of their energy form their once and future enemy is just plain stupid. the mean tweets complaint is more about being called out on the EU's stupidity than anything else.
If previous people were diplomatic and got no results, I do not mind and I don't care if the next person is brash or harsh. Merkel was a terrible chancellor. She merely lived off the fat of the German economy. She road the wave. She coasted. Merkel is the bad person.
2) If the DJT's critics are righteous, the only thing that makes sense is that the NSA knows Trump is dirty, but the intel organizations do not want to reveal sources and methods. They can figure out know what to pass info from the NSA to law enforcement to get Trump. From everything I can see it is not Trump that is guilty but the establishment Democrats.
3)
"E. Jean Carroll wrote in New York magazine that Donald Trump had sexually assaulted her in the fall of 1995 or the spring of 1996 in the Bergdorf Goodman department store in New York City"
So the accusation is decades old. It is not properly actionable in court. Also she cannot remember the year. You would think they would remember the month, the day, the year and the time of day (Before or after lunch etc)
I give is 0 to 20% chance that it happened until I re-read the wiki entry. She doesn't remember the year? I give it 0 to 15% now and that is heading south.
Compare that to Joe Biden and Tara Reade. There is no interest by the legacy press.
I really have hard time believing the EuroTrash leaders hate Trump, because he is supposedly a bad person? They tolerate King Charles, an adulterer twice over, Bill Clinton of the Lolita Express fame, etc.
Many celebrities and liberal news people had dinner with Epstein after his 2007 conviction, but somehow Trump is worse.
Tired of these people.
The EU affords a glimpse into what a global government will look like if the globalist/internationalists ever get their way.
ReplyDeleteWNU Editor bringing his love for Trump into it. Reality is that the EU has fairly strict privacy laws and laws about using social media platforms to target/attack individuals with hateful content.
ReplyDeleteOrange Man Bad!
ReplyDeleteNow Hollande, there is a man. He trades his women in every 10 years or 10,000 strokes. Can't let those bitches get to old.
Emmanuel Macron is a great leader. Fewer than 3% of marriages have a 10% age difference. You have one spouse, who is a millionaire and the other is not, then you see it. But Macron was not rich. So it begs the question. You have to on the face of it reject H naught. You have to as if Ms. Macron a beard?
So Macron is gay. He might as well be up front about it. Otherwise, he is a security risk. Outing himself might lose the Muslim cote and wreck the carefully concocted, Rube Goldberg coalition, but it will come apart at some time.
The EU ship has been sinking for much longer than Trump. They hate anyone who might rock the boat. But fuck bullies and fuck the EU leadership
ReplyDelete"Without the US they would all be goose stepping and speaking German"
ReplyDeleteYou should check out this little group called Azov and see what they're doing with the US! Hehe.
The EU already has much more restrictive regulations on all sorts of things related to video games, and even then the laws are not uniform. The Netherlands for instance has interpreted the modern "free-to-play" profit model that generates hundreds of billions each year as "gambling for children" and many huge IPs are totally blocked on a nation by nation basis. It usually doesn't mean that the publisher makes a different version of the product to suit the interests of a handful of countries. Once those nations have decided to block something it is their responsibility to actually do it.
ReplyDeleteIf the EU decides to block twitter they will need to get the individual states to carry it out manually, and choose to actively disconnect from Twitter, china-style. They will use every bit of leverage and threatening gestures to avoid the terrible optics of actually doing this, and in the end I doubt that every EU state would.