X Blocks EU Commission's Advertising Account After €120m Fine

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bediger4000

27 days ago

1 reply

Tit-for-tat, justifiable maybe in terms of a simple understanding of game theory, but not justifiable in terms of looking like you're cooperating with authorities.

Another red flag that Musk considers himself a ruler, and not merely a leader, which is after all, just a citizen.

NotGMan

27 days ago

6 replies

Another red flag the the EU considers itself a ruler, and not merely a leader.

No-one in EU voted for this stupidity that the EU is doing now.

cinntaile

27 days ago

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The law definitely was voted for. Enforcing the law obviously doesn't require additional voting.

londons_explore

27 days ago

3 replies

The voting chain between a typical EU citizens vote at the ballot box and the wording of this legislation is super long.

And anyway, I don't believe X is accused of breaking any specific written EU law - at least nobody seems to be sharing which specific law.

cinntaile

26 days ago

I'm curious about your thought process here. What makes you so distrustful of the EU that you assumed this was a fine without a legal justification?

lm28469

27 days ago

Yeah I mean that's kind of the point of representative democracy, you want us to go and vote for every single law? That would be a full time activity

hadrien01

27 days ago

They're in breach of the DSA. Here's the Commission's press release: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_...

nsoqm

27 days ago

1 reply

It was? I'm a citizen of the EU and I don't remember the DSA referendum.

arielcostas

27 days ago

2 replies

We the europeans voted a group of MEPs, who voted to approve such regulation. Or do you also vote every single law your country passes?

nsoqm

27 days ago

1 reply

No, but I don’t pretend the process is democratic.

happymellon

27 days ago

2 replies

Thats fair enough if you don't know what democracy is.

CamperBob2

27 days ago

2 replies

Democracy gets you a Donald Trump. Twice. How much democracy can you take?

bdangubic

27 days ago

1 reply

that much worse than “hope&change” or senile grandpa or gw or fucking bill…???! it is like america woke up one morning and was like “wow, trump is bad…” :)

tomalbrc

26 days ago

With senile grandpa you are referring to trump falling asleep in meetings or not remembering which deals he signed?

happymellon

26 days ago

1 reply

Not sure what your point is.

CamperBob2

26 days ago

The point is that there is nothing magical or inherently virtuous about democracy. It's always been the best of a bad lot of alternatives, but that was before social media made it possible for bad-faith actors to exploit it so effectively.

Giving stupid people the same political power as everyone else has always been a bad idea, and now it amounts to a suicide pact.

nsoqm

27 days ago

1 reply

No, I do. Me voting for someone who votes for someone who writes a law is not democratic. I’m far too removed from the process. Maybe it’s you who doesn’t know what democracy is; consider that.

coriny

26 days ago

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The EU, like almost every democracy ever, is a "representative democracy":

> Representative democracy is a system where citizens vote for officials (representatives) to make laws and political decisions on their behalf, rather than voting on every issue directly, making governance of large populations more efficient while holding elected leaders accountable through regular elections. It's also called an indirect democracy and is the most common form of democracy, seen in the UK (MPs) or India (Members of Parliament).

Direct democracy has historically been completely impracticable. And even with modern comms, I still don't see a way of doing it in practice, personally. The direct democracy of ancient Greece was notoriously corrupt.

hulitu

26 days ago

> Representative democracy is a system where citizens vote for officials (representatives) to make laws and political decisions on their behalf,

Except the officials vote on behalf of the lobbysts, not on behalf of the citizens.

hulitu

26 days ago

1 reply

> We the europeans voted a group of MEPs, who voted to approve such regulation

I voted another MEP.

arielcostas

25 days ago

That's how democracy works, a majority of people voted those MPs. Still doesn't make the entire process illegitimate.

juliusceasar

27 days ago

2 replies

Nobody in the USA has voted for the ongoing idiocracy, and yet here we are. The same idiots are telling the EU howto ruin their countries.

bediger4000

27 days ago

As a US citizen, I disagree. Lots of votes cast November 2024, resulting in both a popular vote and Electoral College victory for Trump. He had a term before, he was impeached twice, and indicted several times. We voted for it several different times and ways.

Larrikin

27 days ago

There were a ton of votes cast to stop kids from being vaccinated against childhood diseases, to block funding to the rural hospitals serving those communities, raise taxes via tariffs, and to let government accounts troll with memes. Those communities decided those were all worth it if brown and black people suffered.

This "poor" farmer claims to be sad about it in front of his flags of support of the administration. He refuses to understand what he actually voted for. But he is an adult that absolutely voted for it https://dataviz.whro.org/virginia-farmer-on-edge/index.html

finaard

27 days ago

As a EU citizen: My only complaint is that the fines are not large enough, and enforcement often takes too long.

pjmlp

26 days ago

I surely did vote for this kind of decision.

If X feel like leaving EU, great, I already left that extreme right wing propaganda long time ago.

saubeidl

26 days ago

I did. I wish the EU would finally show some teeth though and ban this Neonazi-owned disinformation platform though.

mzhaase

27 days ago

I did.

SilverElfin

27 days ago

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> Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the EU executive of trying to amplify its own social media post about the fine on X by trying “to take advantage of an exploit in our Ad Composer.”

For those that haven’t followed Nikita Bier (head of X product) on Twitter, he’s a childish and immature person. The way he talks about changes at X is completely unprofessional. So this type of deceptive revenge action is completely in character. I guess Elon hired him for that reason.

dlahoda

27 days ago

1 reply

wdym by unprofessional in this instance?

SilverElfin

27 days ago

1 reply

For example, relating to the broken account location feature:

https://x.com/nikitabier/status/1991723005454741995

DaSHacka

27 days ago

And what exactly is wrong with the account location feature?