Elon Musk gives Europe’s speech platform rules the thumbs up
https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/10/elon-musk-eu-speech-platform-rules-digital-services-act/
While the world continues to wonder what ‘free speech absolutist‘ and gadfly billionaire Elon Musk might mean for the future of Twitter, the European Union has chalked up an early PR win in the long game of platform regulation — extracting agreement from the Tesla founder that its freshly rebooted approach toward content policy sounds like good shiz.
EU internal market commissioner, Thierry Breton, paid a visit to the would-be Twitter owner, Musk, yesterday for a meeting at his gigafactory in Austin, Texas, where we’re told regulation of online speech was a key discussion topic, alongside “mutual interest” supply chain chat.
Elon Musk gives Europe’s speech platform rules the thumbs up
May 10, 2022, 10:24am UTC
https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/10/elon-musk-eu-speech-platform-rules-digital-services-act/
> While the world continues to wonder what ‘free speech absolutist‘ and gadfly billionaire Elon Musk might mean for the future of Twitter, the European Union has chalked up an early PR win in the long game of platform regulation — extracting agreement from the Tesla founder that its freshly rebooted approach toward content policy sounds like good shiz.
> EU internal market commissioner, Thierry Breton, paid a visit to the would-be Twitter owner, Musk, yesterday for a meeting at his gigafactory in Austin, Texas, where we’re told regulation of online speech was a key discussion topic, alongside “mutual interest” supply chain chat.