<story><title>EU opens proceedings against X over efforts to combat information manipulation</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-opens-proceedings-against-x-over-its-efforts-combat-information-manipulation-2023-12-18/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lhnz</author><text>Apparently the dissemination of illegal content refers to the October 7th videos of the Hamas terrorist attack against Israel that galvanized American support for Israel [0].&lt;p&gt;I personally don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s in people&amp;#x27;s interest to have this kind of thing hidden from them and I really dislike the EU for attempting to censor this.&lt;p&gt;Musk is really under a lot of financial pressure and it might be a losing battle to try to fight the EU over this in court. To be honest, I hope he is able to pull out from the EU without cratering the company, but he is now being pulled into lawfare with multiple actors across the globe so Twitter might have no choice but to accept is role as a conduit of censorship for state-level actors.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  [0] https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;prestonjbyrne&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1736707341070860689&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmix</author><text>The previous iteration of Twitter under @jack already learned this lesson. Once you say yes to stuff beyond warrants&amp;#x2F;criminally illegal stuff it&amp;#x27;s just an ever increasing set of demands until it&amp;#x27;s borderline automatic between gov requests-&amp;gt;deletions. With low level agencies sending lists of a 1000 tweets to be flagged or accounts with tenuous connections to current bad thing (ie Russia) to be banned etc.</text></comment>
<story><title>EU opens proceedings against X over efforts to combat information manipulation</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-opens-proceedings-against-x-over-its-efforts-combat-information-manipulation-2023-12-18/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>lhnz</author><text>Apparently the dissemination of illegal content refers to the October 7th videos of the Hamas terrorist attack against Israel that galvanized American support for Israel [0].&lt;p&gt;I personally don&amp;#x27;t think it&amp;#x27;s in people&amp;#x27;s interest to have this kind of thing hidden from them and I really dislike the EU for attempting to censor this.&lt;p&gt;Musk is really under a lot of financial pressure and it might be a losing battle to try to fight the EU over this in court. To be honest, I hope he is able to pull out from the EU without cratering the company, but he is now being pulled into lawfare with multiple actors across the globe so Twitter might have no choice but to accept is role as a conduit of censorship for state-level actors.&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  [0] https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;twitter.com&amp;#x2F;prestonjbyrne&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1736707341070860689&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Vinnl</author><text>&amp;quot;Apparently&amp;quot; means some guy on Twitter says he seems to remember that those videos were the reason? Would be great to see a real source for the footage of the attacks themselves being the problem.</text></comment>