Elon Musk present owns Twitter but the EU is watching cautiously lest the self-styled "free code absolutist" crook the societal media tract into a level for hatred speech.
After Musk tweeted "the vertebrate is freed," Internal Market Commissioner Thierry Breton responded with a question emoji and "In Europe, the vertebrate volition alert by our rules."
Musk’s takeover — reported Thursday night — could have huge implications for the aboriginal of the site, particularly if erstwhile U.S. President Donald Trump is allowed backmost connected the platform, and if Musk loosens the rules to forestall the dispersed of hatred code and misinformation.
Musk promised Thursday that the level would not go “a free-for-all hellscape wherever thing tin beryllium said with nary consequences.”
Breton's tweet was accompanied by the hashtag DSA, a notation to Digital Services Act — which requires providers of integer services to instrumentality swift enactment against amerciable online content, specified arsenic hatred speech.
The commissioner besides tweeted a video showing him and Elon Musk successful May aft discussing the Digital Services Act.
In the clip, Breton tells Musk "I was blessed to ... explicate to you the DSA, a caller regularisation successful Europe " and Musk replies: "I hold with everything you said."
"That's what helium said," Breton tweeted Friday.
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