>DOUGH
Does Zelensky speak Russian or Ukrainian or both?
What's the language part of this story?
>he crashed his plane on purpose
>https://twitter.com/ChuckCallesto/status/1518940844811866115
heh
>https://twitter.com/ElectionWiz/status/1518946434934095873
FINANCIAL TIMES: "Brussels has warned @ElonMusk that #Twitter must comply with the EU’s new digital rules under his ownership, or risk hefty fines or even a ban, setting the stage for a global regulatory battle over the future of the social media platform."
“Our Digital Services Act applies to all major platforms, to ensure their power over public debate is subject to democratically validated rules to better protect fundamental rights online,”
The DSA is expected to come into force in 2024, and includes:
Banning advertising aimed at children or based on sensitive data such as religion, gender, race and political opinions.
Allowing EU governments to request removal of illegal content, including material that promotes terrorism, child sexual abuse, hate speech and commercial scams.
Forcing social media platforms to allow users to flag illegal content in an “easy and effective way” so that it can be swiftly removed.
https://twitter.com/FT/status/1518932047808630784
EU warns Elon Musk over Twitter moderation plans
>https://twitter.com/FT/status/1518932047808630784
https://www.ft.com/content/22f66209-f5b2-4476-8cdb-de4befffebe5
EU commissioner Thierry Breton tells Tesla chief executive: ‘Elon, there are rules’
Thierry Breton, one of Europe’s most influential digital regulators, said Twitter must follow rules on moderating illegal and harmful content online
Brussels has warned Elon Musk that Twitter must comply with the EU’s new digital rules under his ownership, or risk hefty fines or even a ban, setting the stage for a global regulatory battle over the future of the social media platform.
Thierry Breton, the EU’s commissioner for the internal market, told the Financial Times that Elon Musk must follow rules on moderating illegal and harmful content online after Twitter accepted the billionaire’s $44bn takeover offer.
Breton said: “We welcome everyone. We are open but on our conditions. At least we know what to tell him: ‘Elon, there are rules. You are welcome but these are our rules. It’s not your rules which will apply here.’”
Musk’s take-private deal for Twitter could transform the Tesla chief executive, who has used the platform to attack regulators and critics, into a social media baron, given that millions of people rely on the San Francisco-based platform for news.
He said on Monday that “free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy” and described Twitter as “the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated”.
The comments from Breton, one of Europe’s most influential digital regulators, come just days after Brussels signed off a new piece of legislation that will force Big Tech to more aggressively police content online.
In pitching his offer for Twitter, Musk outlined plans to loosen the social media platform’s content moderation policies, describing himself as a “free speech absolutist”. Republican politicians in the US are hopeful that the deal could pave the way for Donald Trump to return to Twitter, after the former president was banned for repeatedly breaching its rules around hate speech and misinformation.
But Breton said he wanted to offer a “reality check” to Musk’s plans for less stringent moderation. The EU commissioner, who was key in negotiating the new Digital Services Act, warned that a lack of compliance from Twitter risked a ban for the platform in Europe.
He said: “Anyone who wants to benefit from this market will have to fulfil our rules. The board [of Twitter] will have to make sure that if it operates in Europe it will have to fulfil the obligations, including moderation, open algorithms, freedom of speech, transparency in rules, obligations to comply with our own rules for hate speech, revenge porn [and] harassment.”
“If [Twitter] does not comply with our law, there are sanctions — 6 per cent of the revenue and, if they continue, banned from operating in Europe,” he added.
The Digital Services Act forces the like of Twitter to disclose to regulators how they are tackling content such as disinformation and war propaganda. The groundbreaking rules are part of a bigger push by Brussels to curb the power of large online platforms, including Facebook and Google.
Last month, the EU also unveiled the Digital Markets Act, aimed at curbing the power of big tech, including a ban on platforms promoting their own services ahead of rivals.
>obligations to comply with our own rules for hate speech
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Services_Act
Google apologises to Thierry Breton over plan to target EU commissioner
https://twitter.com/Lucifer_Church/status/1517596834126077956
https://twitter.com/Lucifer_Church/status/1516305156329160707
Donate to #Azov battalion to help #Ukraine now:
https://twitter.com/amanpour/status/1518494832775380996
Macron official @CBeaune notes “an important victory,” saysnow they must “do concrete stuff”on cost of living. He says France must also “increase the sanctions” on Russia, while being honest with the French people & protecting the poorest: “We cannot say the war has no price.”
Radio Canada reported on Images, posted to social media by the Ukrainian National Guard, depicting soldiers wearing Azov Battalion patches on their uniforms while participating in training with Canadian forces.
On April 11, Radio Canada reported that Canadian military personnel trained members of the Azov unit in addition to at least one other soldier who wore the crest of a World War II-era Nazi SS unit. The training occurred in November 2020, several months before Russia launched its invasion.
“According to Oleksiy Kuzmenko, a journalist specializing in the Ukrainian far right, the presence of these patches strongly suggests that the Azov regiment had access to Canadian military training,” Radio Canada reported.
Kuzmenko told Radio Canada that the patches displayed are “firmly and exclusively associated with the Azov regiment.”
In 2015, Canada’s then-Defense Minister, Jason Kennedy, referred to the Azov regiment as a “small number of rotten apples,” and the CAF issued a statement promising a “thorough review” to determine whether its procedures were adequate to prevent the CAF from “unwittingly aiding those whose views it fundamentally opposes,” after the report by the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies was published.
>ALL legal speech should be allowed on Twitter, is he aware that it’s legal to advocate for underage sex with children?
it begins