I can't decide who is more obvious about their ulterior reasons
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Fine him again!
I thought conservatives didn't like cancel culture...now he's trying to cancel Europe?
Conservatives are the KINGS of cancel culture
And X was fined for being untrustworthy and untransparent.
So much for truth-seeking, huh, Emerald Megalomaniac?
This is strong evidence that EU is actually working for the benefit of the general population, and not just for the benefit of the rich.
All those upvotes really need to get their heads out of the sand and read the room, the EU is on its way to becoming the US of E and fast.
Pretty stupid comment to make, since this fine to X is clearly evidence of the exact opposite.
Also you vary conveniently omit to qualify your claim in any way. It's just an opinion stated as a fact, but with no evidence.
EU still stands for democracy, international law and human rights. All points where EU is the exact opposite of USA that is abandoning all those ideals, that they used to claim to stand for.
EU still stands for democracy, international law and human rights.
Chat Control and flimsy sactiobs to Russia or Israel say otherwise.
Binary thinking does that to you.
EU has the most heavy sanctions against Russia ever instated in the existence of EU. Some of those sanctions even introduced at great cost.
And many EU countries have sanctions on exporting weapons to Israel. And EU has definitely been critical of Israel for years, also before the current crisis.
And for fucks sake there is no chat control in EU!! You are speculating on an unknown outcome of ongoing negotiations.
You are being unreasonable and irrational. What country or union is acting more fairly respecting democracy, human rights and international law more than EU?
There may be a couple that are better, and then there are 300 that are worse, how the fuck do you imagine EU to do much better than it's already doing?
You are living in lala land.
There is no chat control... yet (that was a very closed call), but worry not, the digital omnibus is on ts way. If that gets rejected, something else will come along to destroy your privacy.. sorry, I mean to save the children.
If your measure is "oh but the others are worse" I guess that says it all.
By all means keep trying to attack me, it's enteirtaining, but you'll be talking to the void.
A democracy among hundreds of millions of people always require compromises.
You are naive, and believe some glossy image matching you personal ideals, and apparently being better than basically everybody else is far from good enough for you.
You are letting perfection stand in the way of progress, your type is outright dangerous, because your thinking is borderline fanatic, because you won't compromise on the reasonably balanced to avoid pure evil.
EU is a work in progress, and has made many improvements since it conception. EU is not going back like USA and Russia, but is standing firm on humanitarian values.
Not really, just that it doesn't work in favour of this rich guy in particular.
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Nah, the EU is just "less sellout" than most others. There are terrible things coming from the EU as well. But generally I much prefer living in the EU than pretty much anywhere else.
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Oh look, a tantrum. How unbecoming of the richest pedophile on the planet.
I mean they could do what he asks and each individual county could hit him with the exact same fine
It works because the EU nations are stronger together, and musk can't rebel against this fine without risking a big chunk of his profits.
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500 million people decide to cooperate in relative harmony
"They should be abolished"
Well, they did annoy one self-important asshole.
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Double the fine.
Double it twice. Also stab him in the balls.Β
It's in hundreds of millions and dude has like half a trillion. I'd say multiply by arbitrary number between 100 and 1000.
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The fact that any public representative from any country in the union maintains a Twitter account should be illegal at this point, as should all institutional accounts, of course.
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It is time for the EU to kick out all these too big to fail corporations that are openly hostile to European culture. Megacorporations are a direct threat to all citizens rights.
Nothing of value is lost if Twitter access goes. Booting out Microsoft , Google , etc will be harder
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This. It's crazy to think some dumbass rich american can openly ask for the dissolvement of a progressive, free market just because it tries to protect it's citizen from greed, propaganda and stolen data.
Fuck Elon, and fuck every american oligarch that thinks Europe will just buckle for them.
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Fuck this guy. Let's ban Twitter from the EU. Nothing good will be lost.
LMAO All these right, white men seem to throw a temper tantrum whenever real consequences for being a shitty social network (or a different shitty thing), I think X needs to be abolished instead. After Musk pays the fines, that is!
why not just abolish X from the EU, problem solved, they arnt losing that much.
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Man notorious for saying stupid provocative shit every day says stupid provocative shit. Also, man is Nazi.
I think Elon Musk and alike should be abolished. They are ruining society. Seriously, it is that simple, these pieces of shit are probably humanity's enemy number #1.
X should be abolished.
No, seriously. That location feature that unveiled, that 2/3 of MAGA supporting accounts were Russia and Chinese accounts? He disabled the feature. Xitter is a political influencing tool, nothing less.
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Let's abolish his business instead. Starting with Tesla.
Him backing far-right anti-EU parties for ages is probably coincidental.
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Elon Musk should be abolished.
IMO: the DSA & DMA should hold executives accountable for their company's behaviour. Someone is making those decisions. And all of the corporate law in the world would be abided a whole lot faster and a hell of a lot more diligently if there was the executive's skin at stake for breaking it.
Also: Fuck Musk, as he's a Nazi cunt making a Hitler salute at when being inaugurated as a minister.
Edit: Also, the only thing destroying european culture are the Techno-oligarchs in the USA.
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Billionaires VS the word "Union"
Damn, and here I thought I didn't already have great reasons to be fiercely pro-EU.
Thanks, Elon!
Also note that Dimitry Medvedev, the great Russian clown / mouth of Sauron, replied "Exactly" to this.
Also Viktor Orban, the Prime Minister of Hungary, replied with similar sentiments.
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"I got caught and punished for breaking the law. Those laws shouldn't exist though by the way π’, for unrelated reasons of course"
Ban it. Block it. Fine it. Lock it.
Harder, better, faster, stronger.
Who the hell cares what some illegal american immigrant thinks, honestly? The guy is a proven dumbass who just brainfarts words without any meaning.
I used to block any comments/posts related to "Elon" and in hindsight it seems it was a good idea.
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I am happy some things are still working correctly in the EU but I'm not too optimistic for the future. The adult toddlers seem to be corroding our very foundations little by little.
The fact that something is making Elon Musk hurt tells me its good for the general population of the world.
This is how a spoiled little prick acts when he doesnβt get his way. Dude needs a nap.
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