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X hit with $140M EU fine for breaching content rules

55 points by pogue

by charcircuit

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>"I think it's very important to underline that DSA is having nothing to do with censorship,"
Only under the EUs backwards idea that if it makes speech illegal it's not censorship.
>its failure to provide researchers access to public data.
I don't want my X posts being handed over to researchers even if they are technically public. On social media and chat platforms there is an expectation of the posts and chat messages you make to be private due to being in an obscure section of the website. Just look out the outrage over people's privacy that happens every time someone makes a public search engine of everyone's chat messages on a Discord that has an open invitation link. People's idea of privacy does not align with the idea that anything public should be widely spread with others.

by pu_pe

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X is likely losing money in the EU at this point, and complying with the rules would also cost them money and/or reputation. Maybe they should consider pulling out.

by uyzstvqs

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by buildfocus

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Interesting discussion of the details of the rules and breaches here, from a "this isn't actually about content or censorship at all" perspective: https://bsky.app/profile/daphnek.bsky.social/post/3m7aqqnarm...

by arealaccount

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by thickoldmen

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I don't know anyone who supports this censorship agenda. These obtuse bureaucrats need to get fresh air.

by rich_sasha

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by Jean-Michelgos

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What jurisdiction do they have on an American site ?
None of the craigslist type websites I used in Europe (Leboncoin mobile.de...) we're free of scams, are they getting fined bazillions ? These people live in a buble of infinite wisdom as to their understanding of the Internet and technologies
Exactly why people are leaving Europe in droves

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by TZubiri

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"The Commission said X's verified accounts which carry a blue checkmark do not correspond to industry practice and negatively affect users' ability to make free and informed decisions about the authenticity of the accounts they interact with"
I think X is in the wrong here, the blue checkmark usually means the identity has been verified, in other social media, but also historic twitter.
Nowadays on X it only means that a fee has been paid, it's used for scams, some even claim to be Elon Musk or official twitter announcements, which is very ironic.

by mystraline

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This isn't too much different than the UK OFCOM doing the similar stunts of suing for Sanctioned Suicide and Kiwifarms for websites hosted in the US, and with no foreign stations of business.
I want to make no mistake - I personally think that Kiwifarms is absolutely gross with their harassment campaigns. But it does appear legal, and first amendment speech issue.
SaSu advocates for people who wish to commit suicide, a how-to. Its the final "my body, my choice" that every government wants to take away. So silencing is a thing. But again, 1fa issue.
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/05/when-trolls-take-on-tyra...
https://sanctioned-suicide.net/

by udev4096

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