[banqjls]

If they actually were issuing this fine because of violations of the DSA they wouldn't be afraid of retaliation from the US. Just read that bullshit quote about what a blue checkbox on a profile means or not means...

[CorrectHorseBat]

>If they actually were issuing this fine because of violations of the DSA they wouldn't be afraid of retaliation from the US.

What makes you believe that? The current US administration doesn't care about laws in their own country, why would they care about laws in other countries?

[JumpCrisscross]

> If they actually were issuing this fine because of violations of the DSA they wouldn't be afraid of retaliation from the US

This is the retaliation. We made the first moves. The White House’s contempt for Europe has been laid bare—trying not to anger Trump, at this point, would be superfluous.

[banqjls]

When you say the White House’s contempt do you mean when they decided to stop spending money on Ukraine or…?

I’m European and I couldn’t care less about blue checkmarks and I don’t want social networks censoring people. After all, every time the commission has publicly clashed with Musk it has been because the commission wanted more censorship and Musk doesn’t care. On what side should I be?

[jinzo]

Yes, nothing else comes to mind, does it? Invading Greenland? Tariffs? And that dosen't even go further than this past week.

P.S: Don't believe the Big Scary Mainstream Media, Elon is very happy to censor people that he disagrees with.

[arandomusername]

> Elon is very happy to censor people that he disagrees with

Somewhat. Right now Twitter and IG are the least censored major social media.

[Timon3]

Are there any independent studies that have confirmed this? I don't think such a study would still be possible given the API access limitations.

We know that Twitter used to comply with far fewer government censorship requests in countries like Turkey and India before Musk took over, so actual data would be great.

[arandomusername]

I am not aware of any study.

I am talking in regards to censorship by the platform, not from the government/legally required.

It is a personal observation, but one I think it's clearly observeable by anyone that looks at them. I don't need a study to tell me that Tokyo is cleaner than SF, or that 4chan has less censorship than reddit.

[JumpCrisscross]

> When you say the White House’s contempt do you mean

I mean the attitude shown in Signalgate. Europe is seen as a competitor to American power. (Also, like, threatening to invade an EU member’s territory.)

[rsynnott]

In practice, I suspect the immediate trigger here was tariffs.

[grey-area]

Probably not on the side of the sieg-heiling oligarch.

[Calwestjobs]

Yes blue checkmark is also political decision.