Earlier today, David wrote about the letter which EU Commissioner Thierry Breton sent to Elon Musk in advance of Musk’s interview with Donald Trump.
With great audience comes greater responsibility #DSA
As there is a risk of amplification of potentially harmful content in 🇪🇺 in connection with events with major audience around the world, I sent this letter to @elonmusk
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— Thierry Breton (@ThierryBreton) August 12, 2024
Breton makes some noise about the need to protect free speech but his real interest is in forcing Musk to mitigate “harmful content” which he further defines as “detrimental effects on civic discourse.”
The fact that this was dropped one day before Musk’s interview with Trump is not coincidental. Breton is quite intentionally trying to interfere with free speech in this country (and others). He writes, “we are monitoring…
