Musk given 24 hours to address graphic images of Hamas attacks

This is some "quality" reporting. Nowhere does the EU says to remove "graphic violent images", it's only asking for transparency in what gets removed and the removal of disinformation and calls to violence.

Getting rid of misinformation is great.

Getting rid of accurately reported, gruesome images because of a government mandate flies in the face of the core principles of free speech. And it would cause real damage to the world.

Remember that it was only when the world actually saw images of the Nazi concentration camps that the world actually believed it. They'd heard about it for years, but it was largely ignored.

Or what lol. Rich people are above the law.

Is 6% of X revenue enough to disincentivize him? Is X even making positive net profit? EU needs to get its teeth on and begin doing things like blocking their apps in the regional app stores.

He's gonna fuck this up, too.

He won't, we all know he won't. He'd sooner get Twitter banned from Europe than actually try to improve his platform.

Is his goal to get the app banned from Europe?

I could see that being the business plan.

A porn actress was made accountable for similar actions in less time and with more impact.

Has it been 24 hrs yet?

Is this the thing that finally makes Musk feel some pain? You can't wiggle out of this one, EU law is pretty tight on this stuff.

If that is Net Revenue, I have some bad news for the EU. 🤣🤣🤣

Any phrase, request or threat in the from of "do X or be subject to the rules" is inherently flawed.

Why not skip the asking part and go straight to the enforcing the rules part because they're, you know; the fucking rules.

Purging the images off social media will make it easier to deny that the atrocities ever happened. Keep them there in all their gory uglyness , perhaps put a spoiler tag over them to prevent someone with a feeble constitution from accidentally stumbling onto them and accidentally being triggered , but leave them there as evidence of the evil that happened.

The better would have been to ban Twitter. People and politics have to understand you can't talk with irrational people.

Poop emoji incoming

Or else what? Small fine? You'll never see him.

Freedom of speech must stand. If it's not true, counter it with more speech. Governments shoulder never have the power to block speech nor curate speech.

Honestly, they're just going to post it somewhere else, just like Wagner did for the Ukraine atrocities. Getting it off of X isn't going to make the problem disappear.

Joke’s on Brussels - 6% of a negative number is not a disincentive.

Should be 6% of his personal net worth as most optimistically reported.

Umm... why? Why are they censoring the truth?

This is how people don't take war seriously. All they do is hear about it, but don't see the gruesome reality.

That's irking to limiting press freedom if gruesome photos and videos are forbidden. That ain't good, EU!