> If they actually were issuing this fine because of violations of the DSA they wouldn't be afraid of retaliation from the US
This is the retaliation. We made the first moves. The White House’s contempt for Europe has been laid bare—trying not to anger Trump, at this point, would be superfluous.
When you say the White House’s contempt do you mean when they decided to stop spending money on Ukraine or…?
I’m European and I couldn’t care less about blue checkmarks and I don’t want social networks censoring people. After all, every time the commission has publicly clashed with Musk it has been because the commission wanted more censorship and Musk doesn’t care. On what side should I be?
Are there any independent studies that have confirmed this? I don't think such a study would still be possible given the API access limitations.
We know that Twitter used to comply with far fewer government censorship requests in countries like Turkey and India before Musk took over, so actual data would be great.
I am talking in regards to censorship by the platform, not from the government/legally required.
It is a personal observation, but one I think it's clearly observeable by anyone that looks at them. I don't need a study to tell me that Tokyo is cleaner than SF, or that 4chan has less censorship than reddit.
I appreciate you asking, but I've had these discussions before, and they've never turned out to be fruitful. At this point I'm only interested in (and going to change my mind if presented with) independent studies, but since those are no longer possible, I don't think this will happen.
Why make my initial comment? I keep seeing this assertion in discussions around Twitter, but I've never seen it substantiated beyond personal anecdotes, and it runs counter to my own observations. It's possible that I'm wrong, so I like to ask for data backing up these assertions.
Or are you asking why I made my last comment? I thought it was more polite than just not replying.
> When you say the White House’s contempt do you mean
I mean the attitude shown in Signalgate. Europe is seen as a competitor to American power. (Also, like, threatening to invade an EU member’s territory.)
This is the retaliation. We made the first moves. The White House’s contempt for Europe has been laid bare—trying not to anger Trump, at this point, would be superfluous.