Musk given 24 hours to address graphic images of Hamas attacks

This is some "quality" reporting. Nowhere does the EU says to remove "graphic violent images", it's only asking for transparency in what gets removed and the removal of disinformation and calls to violence.

Getting rid of misinformation is great.

Getting rid of accurately reported, gruesome images because of a government mandate flies in the face of the core principles of free speech. And it would cause real damage to the world.

Remember that it was only when the world actually saw images of the Nazi concentration camps that the world actually believed it. They'd heard about it for years, but it was largely ignored.

Or what lol. Rich people are above the law.

If that is Net Revenue, I have some bad news for the EU. 🤣🤣🤣

He's gonna fuck this up, too.

He won't, we all know he won't. He'd sooner get Twitter banned from Europe than actually try to improve his platform.

That's irking to limiting press freedom if gruesome photos and videos are forbidden. That ain't good, EU!

Edit: for all the dumb fucks downvoting me... Where the fuck did I say anything about fake news and propaganda?

Anyone has an idea what turned the American people against the Vietnam war? Exactly. Horrible videos and photos. That's how the world learns about immoral horrors. And Nazi concentrationi camp photos in all the Nazi German newspapers early on would have changed the course of ww2. But there weren't any published photos...

2nd Edit: important context I missed: from https://feddit.nl/comment/3638132

The only images the EU asked to have removed are images from unrelated conflicts and video games portrayed as geniune images of the current events, so blatant disinformation.

It's in the request made by the EU. The Politico article made up the part where all graphic images are to be removed.

Is his goal to get the app banned from Europe?

I could see that being the business plan.

Has it been 24 hrs yet?

A porn actress was made accountable for similar actions in less time and with more impact.

Purging the images off social media will make it easier to deny that the atrocities ever happened. Keep them there in all their gory uglyness , perhaps put a spoiler tag over them to prevent someone with a feeble constitution from accidentally stumbling onto them and accidentally being triggered , but leave them there as evidence of the evil that happened.

Is this the thing that finally makes Musk feel some pain? You can't wiggle out of this one, EU law is pretty tight on this stuff.

Any phrase, request or threat in the from of "do X or be subject to the rules" is inherently flawed.

Why not skip the asking part and go straight to the enforcing the rules part because they're, you know; the fucking rules.

The better would have been to ban Twitter. People and politics have to understand you can't talk with irrational people.

Umm... why? Why are they censoring the truth?

This is how people don't take war seriously. All they do is hear about it, but don't see the gruesome reality.

Joke’s on Brussels - 6% of a negative number is not a disincentive.

Should be 6% of his personal net worth as most optimistically reported.

Or else what? Small fine? You'll never see him.

Poop emoji incoming

Freedom of speech must stand. If it's not true, counter it with more speech. Governments shoulder never have the power to block speech nor curate speech.