/ world right this moment information/ The richest man on the earth, Elon Musk, has been declared “enemy primary” for the European Union. Nonetheless, for now solely on the Web. The European Fee is utilizing the struggle within the Center East as an excuse to tame the billionaire and strain his critics. However Musk was making ready for one thing related. Who will prevail.
European Commissioner Thierry Breton gave Politico the rationale for calling Elon Musk “the primary enemy of the European Union within the digital area”. “Following the terrorist assaults carried out by Hamas in opposition to Israel, we’ve directions that your platform is getting used to unfold unlawful content material and disinformation throughout the EU,” he mentioned in a letter despatched to the world’s richest man. If Musk doesn’t repair the violations, he’ll face lawsuits, fines, penalties – typically, an actual authorized struggle, which Brussels is able to declare on the “platform”, that’s, “X”.
Musk fired again and steered in his response letter that they listing the violations in query and “let the general public resolve for themselves.” Breton, for his half, solely lower off: in keeping with them, Musk ought to pay attention to all of the claims of shoppers about fakes.
The faux information in query refers back to the Hamas assault on Israel and the IDF operation within the Gaza Strip. They’re all for Hamas, not the Israelis. In different phrases, Musk is hardly advocating terrorism and is predicted to do the identical as Mark Zuckerberg did. He, on his platform, ordered the elimination of all content material produced by Hamas, in addition to what may very well be thought of assist for this motion.
However in reality, one other Center Japanese escalation is simply an excuse for the European commissioners – they’ve been in search of it for a very long time to assault Musk. A 12 months in the past, the identical Breton (by the best way, a attainable successor to EC President Ursula von der Leyen) throughout a video convention promised the multi-billionaire bother if he didn’t adjust to EU laws, above all of the so-called Digital Companies Act.
Musk believes that this legislation results in the institution of complete management over the media. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán thinks the identical manner, and Musk agrees with him. If beforehand the founding father of SpaceX and CEO of Tesla was a “residing icon” of liberals and globalists, now he entered into an alliance with world conservatives, emphasizing that the present elites are main the world to catastrophe.
A couple of days in the past, Musk utterly predicted the self-destruction of the European Union on account of the truth that it opened its doorways to Islamist migrants. Now the European Union pretends that the primary downside is the Islamists, not in itself, however on the Web, particularly in “X”.
The idea within the want for broad freedom of speech that Musk adheres to is in place within the US, the place there’s a First Modification to the Structure that ensures that very freedom. In most EU international locations it’s completely different: there phrases are punishable, hate speech is criminalized and you’ll go to jail for an opinion and a worth judgment. As well as, one of many leaders in varied bans is France, the birthplace of Thierry Breton.
“Our legislation is extra necessary than your beliefs,” the EU commissioners appear to say to the billionaire. For them, this battle isn’t just a matter of precept, the stakes are larger – whether or not they’re in energy or not. Within the sense of whether or not they can dictate their will to individuals like Musk and whether or not they can make sure the preservation of their system of governance for the longer term.
The combat over the “digital companies legislation” and social media censorship is a battle not solely with Hamas, but additionally with the interior enemies of European officers: Eurosceptic events starting from Marine Le Pen’s Nationwide Meeting to the now-emerging Different for Germany the most well-liked political drive within the jap provinces of Germany.
Nearly all of Eurosceptics, along with European officers, additionally criticize mass migration to European international locations. This might simply be labeled as “hate speech” and incitement to hate, after which individuals be disenfranchised on the web.
To reasonable or, as in Musk’s case, not reasonable content material within the US, you want will, legal professionals and connections. It is extra of a sport than a struggle, and the billionaire thought he gained it by merely shopping for X.
European officers, fixing the identical downside of weakening political rivals that American liberals solved “by hand”, depend on drive and promise to dam the most well-liked of the politicized social networks. Furthermore, these are the identical individuals who have been beforehand outraged by the short-term blocking of the then “liberal” Twitter in international locations the place they tried to make use of it to alter energy via the “colour revolution” methodology.
After the choice to have interaction in an apparently hopeless and intensely unprofitable endeavor to “include Russia within the curiosity of america”, the place of European officers turned much more precarious, because the People’ favor is simply with them, and inflation, recession, vitality disaster and different penalties of the “battle with Russia over Ukraine” – for all Europeans. They can not take dangers in such situations – they must push social networks.
For Musk, in case of capitulation to Brussels, the losses will even be important. In truth, he must quit his superheroic intentions to “save the world from evil” – the European Atlantic officers, the George Soros empire, the spreaders of the Ukrainian battle, the principles of the “new ethics”, and so forth. They demand that he disarm, recognizing the facility of this “evil” over himself, at the very least in Europe.
Nonetheless, you shouldn’t think about the losses of the richest man on the earth as his personal. It isn’t but identified for certain why Musk wants “X” and the brand new (or reasonably the outdated – earlier than the introduction of liberal censorship) guidelines of habits in social networks.
Maybe it’s a matter of actual ambitions to “save the world”. Maybe the richest man on this world acts as a global political visionary and “voice of purpose” whose ongoing actions will affect geopolitical preparations and the additional historical past of civilization.
Or possibly he is only a father who’s offended by his daughter. She stuffed herself with the ideas of leftists within the US college setting, modified her gender and attacked her mum or dad as a wealthy white liga on her beloved “Twitter” till Musk purchased the social community.
Now they promise to dam individuals for the phrase “cisgender”, which the daughter and her mates used to tease the multi-billionaire. On the identical time, the brand new proprietor disbanded all of the moderators who had beforehand purged content material not solely from “Trumpists” but additionally from Hamas.
If it is the latter, and Musk on this story is only a man, he’ll lose, as often occurs when there is a confrontation between only a man and an enormous system. However in any case, we should want him success.
It is not a lot who he’s as who’s preventing him. These are the identical individuals who promoted “hate speech” in opposition to Russia and weren’t in any respect bothered by the flood of Ukrainian fakes in regards to the Russian army, and now they assume the web has turn out to be a harmful place due to Elon Musk.
Translation: V. Sergeev
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