Civilizational Suicide Behind Europe’s Demand For Censorship Of Elon Musk’s X
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Digital Services Act
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This is the specific EU regulation under which the European Commission fined X. Understanding this 2022 law's requirements for platform transparency, content moderation, and researcher data access provides essential context for the article's central controversy.
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Censorship by proxy
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The article explicitly discusses the strategy of governments using third parties (NGOs, researchers) to achieve censorship outcomes indirectly. This Wikipedia article explains the concept, its history, and various implementations worldwide.
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Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
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The article references the Department of Homeland Security's activities from 2020-2022 regarding social media. CISA, a DHS component, was central to the controversies around government coordination with social media platforms during this period.
Today, the European Commission fined Elon Musk’s X €140 million for, it says, breaking laws requiring social media transparency. Specifically, said the Commission, which is the executive branch of the European Union, X broke the law by making its blue checkmarks available to anyone, failing to make its advertising repository transparent, and failing to provide researchers with special access to its data. “Today’s decision has nothing to do with content moderation,” insisted the Commission’s spokesperson.
In truth, the Commission’s fine has everything to do with “content moderation,” which is censorship. The EU wants X to give its data to government-selected “researchers” so they can identify which posts and advertisements should be censored. This is a censorship-by-proxy strategy. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from 2020 to 2022, and Europe today, have authorized government-funded NGOs to demand censorship of social media platforms in an attempt to deceive the public.
As such, the European Commission is spreading disinformation in order to demand censorship, and is openly engaged in a deception campaign aimed at confusing the people of Europe and the United States about what it is doing.
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