European Union Tells Musk to Censor Pro-Palestine Content on Twitter/X …or Face Fine, Ban

“Pro-Russian Propaganda” might seem like a vague and all-encompassing term. Actually, it has a specific definition: it is “anything aligned with the Kremlin’s interests.”

Feel free to take a minute and consider the implications of that.

Now, we must wonder: what is the definition of “pro-Hamas disinformation”?

The Guardian:

The EU has issued a warning to Elon Musk over the alleged disinformation about the Hamas attack on Israel, including fake news and “repurposed old images”, on X, which was formerly known as Twitter.

The letter arrives less than two months after sweeping new laws regulating content on social media seen in the EU came into force under the Digital Services Act.

If Musk, the owner of X, does not comply he can face a fine of 6% of his revenues from X or a total blackout in the EU.

The logical thing to do would be to let them do the blackout, and then hope the people of this terrorist bloc demand they have some kind of freedom.

But it would cost Elon a lot of money, and it is unlikely that anyone in Europe would be demanding anything.

Instead, it would make sense to just block all Israel and Palestine related content, because they are saying “you must force people to promote the Israel agenda,” which is not a reasonable thing for a social media company to do.

Thierry Breton, the commissioner responsible for the act, wrote to Musk to urge him to ensure “a prompt, accurate, and complete response” to the request to contact Europol, the EU police enforcement agency, and “relevant law enforcement agencies” within the next 24 hours.

Breton reminded Musk that he needed to have “proportionate and effective mitigation measures to tackle the risks to public security and civic discourse stemming from disinformation”.