Europe gives Elon Musk 24 hours to respond about Israel-Hamas war misinformation and violence on X::Thierry Breton, the European commissioner for the internal market, warns Elon Musk about disinformation on X related to the Israel-Hamas conflict.

  • JasSmith@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Thanks for more info. I’m going to read through the Act when I have time later today. If I understand you correctly, and the summary, it appears that the EU just effectively banned social media in the EU. This was definitely not advertised to citizens in advance, and like it or not, many people like their social media. Given this, there are going to be some tough conversations in the coming months. This looks like an incredible legislative fuck-up, because a ban does not have anywhere near popular public support.

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      1 year ago

      You should read it at your earliest convenience, as your preemptive conclusion that the “EU just preemptively banned social media in the EU” is absolutely not what the Digital Services Act is about.

    • glimpseintotheshit@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      You don’t understand correctly:

      “The DSA proposal maintains the current rule according to which companies that host other’s data are not liable for the content unless they actually know it is illegal, and upon obtaining such knowledge do not act to remove it.”

      No idea how you came to that wild conclusion lol