Elon Says....

 This AM....I noted this comment  brought up in the past day....Elon Musk says the European Union (EU) sent him a formal letter....in a demanding 'style'...that he censor (in some way) Donald Trump during the 2024 US presidential election.

BS?  Well....no.  It's really old news.

This is the amusing side to the story. This letter occurred on 12 August 2024...a couple of hours before the Musk-Trump interview being aired, and was framed as a reminder of X's obligations under the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA). 

What the EU letter basically said?  It went into brief detail.....he (Elon) was to prevent potentially "harmful content" and "disinformation" on X.

Who signed the letter?  Thierry Breton, the EU Commissioner for Internal Market.

To be honest, in the days after the letter came out....the EU said it was definitely not censorship.

Elon's comeback...some F-this/F-that commentary.

So this past week....looking at the 2025 results of Twitter/X...tensions over digital regulation continue.  This past week...EU fined X $140 million (about €120 million) for DSA violations like deceptive design and transparency failures.

Spring of 2025....it was noted that 21.5-million German accounts exist on Twitter, with EU-wide...being near 100-million. 

Most used in Germany?  Well....YouTube leads with 65.5-M accounts (2025).  With WhatsApp in second place with 62.2-M.  Instagram at 44-M accounts.

I'm not really pro-censorship or anti-censorship....I'm basically expecting in 100-percent of cases....some BS to be part of the sales-gimmick...either for sports, news, politics, finance, or religion.  In the EU fine situation...if I were Elon....I'd just go to members of the countries involved, and charge a 1-Euro monthly fee....calling it a censorship fee.  You pay to support censorship, or prevent censorship....interpreting it in whichever way makes you feel better.

Then I'd hand the EU the yearly 120-M cost of doing business....either supporting censorship, or defeating censorship.

Yeah, in some way....it's like professional wrestling....you need to believe 'something'....even if it's fairly faked-up.