Elon Musk’s best move in EU fight may be an eXit
Elon Musk’s best move in EU fight may be an eXit
reuters.com
Elon Musk has no easy way out of his fight with the European Commission, which is investigating whether his social-media site X breached rules designed to limit illegal content and disinformation. The billionaire is facing determined adversaries in the relevant Commissioners Thierry Breton and Margrethe Vestager, who have a new legal tool. Musk may eventually conclude that pulling the plug makes sense.
The Commission last month issued a preliminary finding, opens new tab that X had breached the Digital Services Act (DSA), a sprawling new piece of legislation, opens new tab that aims to combat harmful online content. Among other things, Brussels took issue with the site’s blue user checkmarks, which it fears bestow a false credibility on some accounts. X said it disagreed with the Commission’s assessment. Another investigation, into the way Musk’s site moderates disinformation and illegal content, is ongoing.
Breton took the unusual step of reminding Musk publicly about the DSA on X, causing consternation in Brussels but also highlighting the Frenchman’s commitment to the case. The ultimate possible penalties include fines equivalent to 6% of revenue.
Elon is such a manchild. And those who follow him zealously are brain maga dead idiots and outright weird.
Its truly remarkable how fast he was able to ruin such ubiquitous software like Twitter.
SpaceX is cool. I wish Shotwell was calling all the shots and Musk departed the company. Clearly, Shotwell is running a competent company despite Musk’s involvement
SpaceX is polluting like a motherfucker, breaking ecological laws all over the place, and the only reason they don't get hammered is because they're in fucking Texas. It's the same for anything safety related in the company as well. This is the guy who "didn't like yellow" so he demanded that all warning signs not be as visible. SpaceX is a fucking OSHA inspectors god damned nightmare. Once again, jack shit happens because he's in Texas and the Governor and AG are outright protecting him.
Can we stop sucking the dick of tech companies that fuck up the planet, ignore safety laws, and are raping the public for a quick buck?
Fuck Musk, Fuck SpaceX, and fucking grow up, none of these people are good people if they're willing to sell their souls and lives to these assholes to get the job done. Especially when they're willing to ignore safety rules at the expense of their own workers to do it. They can all die in a fucking fire for all I care. (And if they have their way with safety rules, it will fucking happen!)
EDIT: Also, pro-tip: We're never actually going to fucking Mars. We can barely function in a biosphere actually specifically attuned to us. If you're all in on this Mars shit, you've been taken for a ride by a fucking charlatan. It's literally unsurvivable and we don't have the technology to change that. We can't even terraform our own planet, with life and water on it. We could be actually spending money on fixing our biosphere but I guess rich asshole ambitions to be the King of Mars plays better than fucking reality to a lot of chumps.
This is what I’m counting on. I think he’d rather fight the laws in court than willingly reduce the size and reach of his bullshit machine. What he’ll learn, though, is that the judges and lawmakers of the EU aren’t standing in line to kiss his ass, like they are here in the US. I will love watching him bankrupt himself because he’s so emotionally immature, he’s determined to fight a stupid, unwinnable battle.
Even JK Rowling finally backed down and started deleting tweets now that she's gonna have the living shit sued out of her by Imane Khelif.
Musk learns no such lessons.
I sure hope so.