A top European Union official fired off a fresh warning to Elon Musk about complying with the bloc’s new rules on social-media moderation after the billionaire completed his $44 billion deal to buy Twitter Inc., reports Ron Paul Institute.
The bird is freed
Mr. Musk has said that he views Twitter as an important platform for free speech. After closing the deal and firing some of Twitter’s top executives Thursday, Mr. Musk tweeted that “the bird is freed”—a reference to the company, whose logo is a blue bird.
The EU’s commissioner for the internal market, Thierry Breton, responded hours later, saying that Twitter under Mr. Musk’s ownership would still need to meet new social-media standards that European lawmakers agreed to earlier this year.
“In Europe, the bird will fly by our rules,” Mr. Breton wrote on Twitter, adding an image of the European flag.
Pledge to restore free speech values
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) declared Musk’s pledge to restore free speech values on social media as threatening Democracy itself. She has promised that “there are going to be rules” to block such changes. She is not alone. Former President Obama has declared “regulation has to be part of the answer” to disinformation.
For her part, Hillary Clinton is looking to Europe to fill the vacuum and called upon her European counterparts to pass a massive censorship law to “bolster global democracy before it’s too late.”
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Source: Ron Paul Institute
