Summary
The EU plans to fine Elon Musk’s X over $1 billion for violating the Digital Services Act by failing to control disinformation and illicit content.
This would mark the first major penalty under the new law and could trigger a legal clash with Musk, who vowed to fight in court.
Regulators say the fine aims to deter other platforms. Tensions with the U.S. are rising, as X also faces a broader investigation.
A billion dollars in fines might make twitter unprofitable. In a regular company, that would coerce the owners to make changes. But Musk doesn’t own twitter because he wants to make money off of it, at least not directly. What Musk uses it for is control. A billion dollars a year in fines will be worth it to him, as long as it gives him more control.
The only way to deny him this undue influence is to ban it outright or fine him a lot more.
I guess nobody told the EU how many billions Musk has.
Just ban the whole damn Nazi platform.
EU does not have the balls to do it. Same as Democrats in US.
At least they have the balls to impose 1 billion euro penalties.
“Plans to” has as much value as “slams” when it comes to real world impact. I’d love to be proven wrong and have the new title become “actually fines”, but I have my doubts.
There is a history of following through with huge fines https://www.theneweconomy.com/business/top-5-largest-fines-levied-on-tech-companies-by-the-european-commission
With the current (digital) regulatory landscape (e.g. GDPR, DMA, DSA and the AI Act that is entering into force in multiple stages right now), the EU has proven to be quite resolute and decisive with their fines and measures. This is all partof their digital de ade stategy and more legislation is coming to tame these tech behemoths. Yes, it isn’t always fast or efficiënt, but the EU seems to be only world power that actually has the balls to do something.
This reminds me of EDPB Guidelines that have been published last year. In it, the EDPB had said that in extreme cases, AI models that have been trained on unlawfully obtained data such as personal data without a ground of proxessing etc., nationale authorites may compel the violating developer to delete the whole model. I do not see it happening soon or often, but it is a very good sign that the European authority mentions this as a possible action and outcome in an official document.
“Slams”. Look at what journalists did to our boy!
I’m optimistic that it will happen eventually. The EU generally is moving with stuff like this, even though it is slow as fuck. But well, let’s see, not promising anything…
The difference is that the judicial branch needs to be thorough and build a case. Planning to is all they can do until they actually do.
If Shitter is found to do something illegal that should land them a fine that is what will happen.
Up to 1 billion, it will be less than that and it will be dragged out as long as possible… And still it isn’t as beneficial as plain blocking the nazi websites.
Sadly, you’re right. Although if the the extreme aggression coming from the US government continues, they might actually get prodded into doing something about it eventually.
or is willing to
Are the Russian troll farms on Lemmy now? How do you clowns get by on 20K rubles per month?
What Russian bots? Not done with licking trumps ass?
They could leave it first, but yes.
up to $1 billion
It will be much less than a billion.
If a fine can be paid without causing financial strain, then it just becomes part of the cost of doing business.
If you want results, fine him $100 billion.
Also, they should fine him in €
Agreed.
It’s worth $33B isn’t it? Go higher please
“Worth” only according to its owner, who paid himself to buy it from himself under a different org. Good luck finding an outside investor willing to spend $30B on it now that it’s turned into a hate pool with a shit revenue stream
The last people to evaluate the company under the rules of fiduciary responsibility put the value at $10 billion.
Musk gets away with this because people believe his Ponzi schemes will make them rich. In a first world country he would be in prision for fraud.
That’s not the point. That’s the value at which the deal was made. Fine him more.
Even a small hole can sink a ship
I would just outright ban all of this Nazis businesses
At this point in time absolutely. Plus a good old tar n feather session wouldn’t hurt
let’s see it.
Maybe add 20% tariffs to that
Make it $10 billion. $1 billion is nothing to Elon Musk and X. Fine his Tesla swasticars company too for something.
This will impact the stock price. Tesla will lose more than the fine in total.
Block his sites Europe-wide at the ISP level. Make Google and Apple block his apps from the European app stores.
Hit him where it’ll really upset him.
Let’s goooooooo
Only a matter of time until this guy buys Reddit.
I call it in 2026. So glad I’m out of that place.
Just block them completely
Good, make Musk lose as much money as possible
Twitter might as well be 4chan with how heavily I avoid that site now.
Least 4chan creates memes
It’s worse. I’ve never actually avoided 4chan I just don’t go there. I actually avoid Twitter and have been for the past few years
Twatter is 4chan gold.
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Do it motherfuckers, I dare ya!
