Let that sink in.
In 2015, you could have never guessed that the rocket guy who made a cameo on Big Bang Theory would be fighting for the total erasure of the European Union.
Musk is salty with the EU over the $140 million fine it just leveled at X for not complying with its new censorship law.
The EU maintains that the law has nothing to do with censorship. It says it's merely trying to protect people from "illegal and harmful content," which coincidentally includes ideas like "men aren't women" and "we should deport all the violent Muslims."
The EU also said X deserves the fine because it has "deceptive" checkmark badges on profiles to show who is a "verified" person. The checkmarks became a way of showing who was a celebrity/voice of authority, and who was not. Twitter employees almost entirely donated to Democrat/left-wing political parties and heavily favored those voices on the platform.
Before anyone could get a checkmark for $8 a month, the platform often withheld checkmarks from right-wing public figures, even those with millions of followers. It was also accused of selling access to the checkmarks to accounts that spent big money on the platform. Consider this 2012 article from the far-left outlet The Atlantic.
For some odd reason, the EU never had an issue with old Twitter putting its finger on the scales of "democracy" or peddling in one-sided propaganda, or offering deceptive pay-to-play checkmarks behind the scenes. It only had an issue once Elon Musk decided to support free speech and Donald Trump. 🤔
The head of product at X, Nikita Bier, banned the European Union from running ads on the platform as a response to the fine.
Meanwhile, because of the controversy, X became the most popular app in Europe over the last week.
The EU maintains that the fine is valid because the company is not "meaningfully verifying users," which begs the question: Why does the government have the right to fine companies hundreds of millions of dollars for the way the companies design their own private websites?
Seems like the government may be trying to fill its coffers by leveling unjust fines and penalties against businesses.
Is there a word to describe this type of government structure?
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