EU Offered X Secret Censorship Deal…
# EU Offered X Secret Censorship Deal To Avoid Fines For 'Deceptive Dark Patterns', Musk Says
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by Tyler Durden
Sunday, Jul 14, 2024
12:35 AM
Musk alleged in a post on X that the EU commission had offered him a secret deal if they quietly censored speech (al la Twitter 1.0).
"The European Commission offered 𝕏 an illegal secret deal: if we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us.
"The other platforms accepted that deal.
"𝕏 did not."
Mike Benz, a former Trump administration official, highlighted this to suggest the EU’s real motivation is to “use the DSA to force X to restaff the censorship squad fired when Elon took over.”
He further alleged that people who present themselves as researchers are actually “censorship activities & political operatives.”
Musk reposted Benz’s analysis with just one word of comment:
“Exactly.”