EU warning to Elon Musk, the ban will be imposed if he does not follow the rules
According to the report of the news agency Reuters, Thierry Breton, Commissioner of Digital Policy of the European Union, had a video meeting with Musk on Wednesday. He told Musk during the meeting that he would have to follow a checklist of new rules, also known as the Digital Services Act. He also asked to follow the EU’s historic rules against online hate speech and misinformation. Didier Randers, the justice chief of the European Commission, also made similar remarks. Please tell me that this rule is a part of a new digital rule.
London: The European Union has warned the new owner of Twitter, Elon Musk, to ban Twitter. EU industry chief Thierry Breton said on Wednesday that Twitter should follow digital rules, if it does not, then a decision can be taken to ban it. In his statement, he also emphasized curbing fake news, hate speech, and discriminatory posts being used on Twitter.
According to the report of the news agency Reuters, Thierry Breton, Commissioner of Digital Policy of the European Union, had a video meeting with Musk on Wednesday. He told Musk during the meeting that he would have to follow a checklist of new rules, also known as the Digital Services Act. He also asked to follow the EU’s historic rules against online hate speech and misinformation. Didier Randers, the justice chief of the European Commission, also made similar remarks. Please tell me that this rule is a part of a new digital rule.
According to Breton, Musk responded by saying that the new rules would be implemented soon. He said that the protection of freedom of expression of the people will also be kept in mind on this platform. On this, Breton says that he is glad that Musk has a sensible approach to implementing the historical rules of the European Union.
Let us tell you that according to the researchers of the Center for Countering Digital Hate, the number of tweets containing many different racial cases of abuse increased in the week after Musk bought Twitter. According to a racial epithet, attacks on black people stood at more than 26,000, which was more than three times the average for 2022. There was a 53% increase in the use of slurs targeting trans people, and an average 39% increase in the use of offensive words for gay men. There has been an increase in the use of offensive words to target Jews and Hispanics.
