It feels like it’s always the EU picking up the ball on these things. Aren’t there mechanisms in place to monitor these things in the US, or is it legislation (or lack of it) that prevents the government from going after such things?
In the US, you always have to consider the benefits and risks to an elected official. Republicans would get nothing out of putting their new golden boy under a magnifier, but I’m certain that if a democrat tried it, they’d get slandered to hell and back.
The EU probably has no such concern. I don’t know how the EC’s members are picked, but partisanship is probably not as huge a factor. Eventually some EC members were bound to grow a backbone.
I’m not up on EU politics all that much, so I hope someone more informed comes along and posts a better answer, but…
My distant view + guess for as to why it’s different is that they have more than one party. Partisanship is at its worse when there are only 2 of you, as demonstrated by the US system - it’s all finger pointing and “us vs them” that just polarized everything.
In the EU there are (at least?) 7ish “major” political parties, and while some are bigger than others, many actual hold seats and power unlike the US Green and Libertarian “parties” that are essentially meaningless.
As such, any “partisanship” seems at least less extreme. It’s a lot harder to crucify one bad guy when your time and attention is split between 6 “bad guys”. And different parties back different things, so even if 3 were anti-abortion, you’d have to split your slander and hate to three different groups with different OTHER ideas. So it gets a bit lost in sauce.
And on the other side, if you take a strong stance on one issue (such as this one), there are likely multiple parties on your side for that issue since there are unlikely to be 7 opinions, and even if they are, the similar ones can “tag team” a little bit since they’re more in line with each other than the opposing sides are.
If you’ve ever played video games, games with more than 2 teams play very differently than ones that are just one or the other. Dynamics are much more complicated and constantly evolving than they are in a simple “team a vs team b”.
As such, my understanding is that all of these extreme takes are severely diluted since there are more shades of gray and more nuance to the conversation and not just a constant “red vs blue”.
Currently 10 parties in the parliament making up seven fractions. For a supernational parliament the influence of nationalities is generally small, but occasionally it bleeds through.
There’s actually more things that you can call parties operating on the European levels but many aren’t large/successful enough to be granted party status by the parliament. E.g. Pirates generally fraction with Greens/EFA, Volt is split between Greens/EFA and Renew, roughly left-liberal vs. right-liberal, they really don’t seem to be able to decide.
The members of the Commission are chosen by the head of each member state, but also have to be approved by the parliament. So it’s kinda like a civil servant that gets vetted by elected representatives
It’s kind of like the US Senate from before the 17th Amendment.
Also most of the EU members conduct business in their own language so they don’t have to worry about Anglosphere media getting a hard-on for them.
I’ve lost all hope for the US to do anything meaningful on topics such as disinformation. I mean, half of the people there vote for people who believe COVID is a hoax and the Jews are firing space lasers at people.
While I have no doubt that the EU has corrupt politicians, It’s no where as visibly bad as it is in the US. Most of the people who could bring this forward get something out of what he is doing or contributing to them, and they would rather turn a blind eye than risk losing whatever he is giving them.
For some it’s helping out their base, for others its something more monetary.
There are mechanisms there, but they only work when the people watching them are invested in helping the citizens.The government is 20 years behind on tech legislation, and they are owned by the corpos.
God do I wish the UK was still part of the EU - cause then we’d be governed by at least some people with an actual backbone to speak of, rather than the corrupt Tories that racist dickheads keep voting in over and over
As usual the UK will benefit from the EU without contributing or meaningfully participating.
On the bright side, if our politicians are ever forced to concede and rejoin the EU, they won’t have their grandfather privileges anymore, and will actually have to participate fairly like everyone else
Eh those idiots would just keep pushing Brexit as a distraction, at least when the UK rejoins the EU, if they ever do, they’ll have gotten the Brexit out of their system.
I do hope it’s a “when”, cause it should be alarmingly clear to everyone who isn’t a rich arsehole that being in the EU was to our collective benefit…
Having said that, if it took crippling our economy for people to learn that lesson, then we’re fucked on everything else steadily coming our way (i.e. climate change)
It’s baffling to me that the UK was able to keep their currency and all kinds of other benefits that virtually no other member states had yet they still threw a tantrum and left. Imagine being able to partially dictate your city’s tax codes/laws without having to pay into the pot as much as anyone else while also able to ignore many rules you don’t like. One could almost describe their relationship with the EU as borderline extractory, yet they still weren’t satisfied. Now if they rejoin, they probably won’t get half of the benefits they had previously.
Kinda OT but I was wondering, what’s the proper collective noun for a group of bellends? A carillon?
Is there no one in his life that can tell Elon to shave that shit off?
Over half of his follicles are on strike. He needs to have a mustache transplant like he did with his hair.
I looked at the preview image of him in disbelief, them was caught off guard by your comment being the first one shown in my client!
Does anyone know if filtering “X” also filters out any title that has the letter “x” in it from my feed?
E: using sync
I think so, which is super annoying. Probably one of the reasons why he went with a letter, it’s really hard to filter it.
Copy paste of my comment on this story in another community:
For those wondering:
Based on revenue in 2022, that means Twitter faces a $264 million dollar fine.
The DSA isn’t the real danger for twitter. That would be NetzDG. From April, 2023:
mm that sounds juicy, fingers crossed
With what Twitter is worth now, that fine would be akin to complete asset forfeiture.
And based on my predictions, that’ll amount to about fifty dollars by the end of 2025.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The social media platform X, formerly Twitter, is being investigated for allegedly breaking EU law on disinformation, illegal content and transparency, the European Commission has announced.
The decision to launch formal infringement proceedings against the company, owned by the US billionaire Elon Musk, comes weeks after X was asked to provide evidence of compliance with new laws designed to eliminate hate speech, racism and fake news from platforms in the EU.
Under the Digital Services Act, which came into force in August, a company can be fined 6% of its global income or be banned from operating across the EU if it is found to have breached the law.
In a statement, the European Commission said it had taken the decision to launch proceedings against X on the basis of its “preliminary investigation”, which allegedly concerned the “dissemination of illegal content in the context of Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel”.
The EU will investigate whether search on X boosts blue tick accounts and spreads content that users might mistake as from verified sources in the pre-Musk service.
Earlier this year, Facebook, TikTok and the tech companies Google and Microsoft signed up to a code of conduct laid out by the EU to prepare for the new laws in the DSA.
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