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European Union regulators are preparing major penalties against X, including a fine that could exceed $1 billion, according to a New York Times report yesterday.
The European Commission determined last year that Elon Musk’s social network violated the Digital Services Act. Regulators are now in the process of determining what punishment to impose.
“The penalties are set to include a fine and demands for product changes,” the NYT report said, attributing the information to “four people with knowledge of the plans.” The penalty is expected to be issued this summer and would be the first one under the new EU law.
“European authorities have been weighing how large a fine to issue X as they consider the risks of further antagonizing [President] Trump amid wider trans-Atlantic disputes over trade, tariffs and the war in Ukraine,” the NYT report said. “The fine could surpass $1 billion, one person said, as regulators seek to make an example of X to deter other companies from violating the law, the Digital Services Act.”
Don’t talk about doing the thing and do the thing.
in a democracy the latter has to be preceded by the former.
Oh noooooo 1 billion dollars…such a heavy fine…
Make it 60 billion.
This. Fines should be percentage of wealth. Otherwise they’re just a sticker price on breaking the law.
So a slap on the wrist? A significant one sure but just ban them if you want to be serious and make an example out of them
but just ban them if you want to be serious
But if you ban them you can’t continue to fine them…
If you want X and other American social media platforms to keep undermining your democracies then sure just fine them. But if you want to get serious then kick them to the fucking curb
I believe it when they actually do it
They’ve fined meta for 800 million in the past.
There’s a reason there’s so much anti EU sentiment on social media.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_5801
It’s never enough. Companies that make this much money just write it off as the cost of doing business.
Why stop at 1
It’s a good start
Get back to me when they spell Billion with a T