{"id":1757765,"date":"2022-12-01T07:17:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T12:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1757765"},"modified":"2022-12-01T07:17:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T12:17:37","slug":"europe-tries-desperately-to-rein-in-elon-musk-because-free-speech-threatens-the-regimes-grip-on-groupthink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/europe-tries-desperately-to-rein-in-elon-musk-because-free-speech-threatens-the-regimes-grip-on-groupthink\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe Tries Desperately To Rein In Elon Musk Because Free Speech Threatens The Regime\u2019s Grip On Groupthink"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Feurope-tries-desperately-to-rein-in-elon-musk-because-free-speech-threatens-the-regimes-grip-on-groupthink%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1757765&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The European Union (EU) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/a07ca1ae-9f9a-46ee-9457-27bb30e18ed2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reportedly<\/a> threatened to ban Twitter from the continent on Wednesday if the company\u2019s new owner, Elon Musk, doesn\u2019t adhere to strict content moderation guidelines.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This warning shot was fired by EU industry chief Thierry Breton, who indicated that the guidelines Musk\u2019s Twitter must follow were detailed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/ip_22_2545\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">European Commission\u2019s Digital Services Act<\/a> (DSA).\u00a0These guidelines include surrendering the platform to \u201cindependent audits\u201d conducted by \u201cindependent\u201d third parties and the implementation of \u201cmechanisms to adapt swiftly and efficiently in reaction to crises affecting public security or public health,\u201d among other things.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Breton indicated that in order to prevent Twitter from being banned in Europe, the tech entrepreneur will have to part ways with his \u201carbitrary\u201d approach to reinstating the accounts of people previously banned from the platform. Musk must also surrender the platform to an \u201cextensive independent audit\u201d by 2023.\u00a0Reportedly, Breton told Musk that the platform must \u201creinforce content moderation\u201d and \u201caggressively\u201d root out disinformation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On one hand, the EU\u2019s stipulations sound somewhat reasonable; after all, the <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/strategy\/priorities-2019-2024\/europe-fit-digital-age\/digital-services-act-ensuring-safe-and-accountable-online-environment_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DSA<\/a> requires Twitter to report if criminals are using the platform to conduct illegal activities. On the other, this move is utterly deranged and should not be tolerated.\u00a0Who is the EU to strong-arm an American company?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Musk indicated that under him, Twitter would constrain itself to the laws of the lands in which its users operate. And, to be fair, this is a reasonable approach to doing business; after all, companies like Kellogg\u2019s adhere to the standards laid about by the European Food Safety Authority.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Twitter isn\u2019t in the business of producing breakfast cereals, and the regulation of a tech company is undoubtedly more complex than determining the appropriate ratio of high-fructose corn syrup or yellow dye allowed in products for mass consumption.\u00a0The EU\u2019s gripe with Twitter, as indicated by Breton\u2019s statements, is the potential proliferation of information and speech that threaten the entrenched interests of the ruling regime on the European continent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The fact that freedom of speech is largely a political phenomenon unique to the United States and that Big Tech found its roots in the same country isn\u2019t a coincidence. Neither is the fact that in its earliest days, Big Tech\u2019s pioneers insisted that their inventions would be used for the proliferation of free speech around the globe. The naivety of this nouveau neoliberalism was short-lived, however, as the cynical realities of running massive transnational corporations became all too real.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Twitter was one of the international managerial elite\u2019s favorite inventions because it allowed them to set and control the narratives that gave direction to the world\u2019s governments, markets, and more. Now that these people have lost control of the machine that put them at the center of the universe, they want to see it stripped of all utility.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Musk\u2019s re-platforming of dissident voices on a massively popular social media platform that is taking steps, however imperfectly and incompletely, to no longer unfairly, algorithmically suppress counternarrative speech threatens the legitimacy of the EU. If there<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Musk emboldens dissident voices, then entrenched interests could be at risk of losing their power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1185,"featured_media":1757768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1757765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1757765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1757765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1757768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1757765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1757765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1757765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}