Elon Musk apologized to Henna Virkkusen for X’s fines

A tech billionaire Elon Musk is upset by the fine imposed by the EU competition authorities and threatens EU officials with personal sanctions.

Musk’s social media service X received a 120 million euro fine from EU competition authorities on Friday for violating EU content rules. The decision is the first of its kind.

The decision is based on a two-year investigation and the new EU digital services regulation (DSA). It obliges digital platforms to remove illegal and harmful content.

According to Musk, the fine also applies to him personally.

“The EU imposed this absurd fine not only on X, but also on me personally, which is even more absurd. Therefore, it would be appropriate to target our countermeasures both at the EU and at those individuals who took this action against me,” he wrote on the messaging service in X.

Musk wrote alsothat the EU should be abolished and powers returned to individual countries, so that governments could better represent their peoples.

Musk did not say in more detail what kind of countermeasures he is planning or who exactly he would target.

His along with it However, the “woket Stasi commissioners” of the EU would understand the significance of the Streisand phenomenon. The phenomenon refers to a situation where an attempt to remove information from the internet leads to its spreading more widely.

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“It is important to underline that DSA has nothing to do with censorship,” Virkkunen said on Friday, according to Reuters.

Virkkunen justified the fine on Friday in X among other things, that the blue badges used in X for verified accounts are misleading.

“You love censorship more than life itself. Admit it,” Musk replied to Virkkunen’s update.