As Catherine Salgado reports for PJMedia.com, Musk also re-shared a post about Irish teacher Enoch Burke, who was jailed for refusing to use transgender pronouns, and later replied to another user, “So many politicians in Europe who are traitors to their own people.”
Musk reposted and reiterated his previous explanation of why he bought X (then Twitter) in the first place.
“I didn't do the Twitter purchase because I thought it was a great way to make money. I knew that there would be a zillion slings and arrows coming in my direction.
It really felt like, there was a civilizational danger that unless one of the major online platforms broke ranks, then, because they're all just behaving in lockstep along with the legacy media.
Literally there was no place to actually get the truth. It was almost impossible. So everything was just getting censored. The power of the censorship apparatus was incredible,” Musk said.
The EU seems to be borrowing ideas from 20th century Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler...
And Musk highlighted the fact that Meta has a verification program similar to X’s, yet the EU hasn’t onerously fined the more censorship-prone Meta.
Musk confirmed that another user’s report that X terminated the EU Commission’s advertising account was accurate in the wake of the fine.
Twitter used to charge around $15,000 for a blue check verification, while an X Premium subscription is now only a few dollars a month.
Are EU bureaucrats simply angry that the ordinary citizens are now able to afford the verification that used to be reserved to the famous and the wealthy?
In essence, it’s punishment for not bending the knee to the EU’s iron-fisted control over online content.
As Modernity.news' Steve Watson points out, the fine reeks of the same vindictive playbook the EU has used since Musk took over Twitter in 2022. It’s no coincidence; Brussels has been gunning for him precisely because he’s turned the platform into a haven for unfiltered discourse, refusing to censor at the whim of unelected technocrats.This isn’t a one-off slap; it’s the culmination of years of threats and harassment. Back in January 2023, EU Commission Vice-President Vera Jourová openly warned Musk that his “freedom of speech absolutism” wouldn’t fly, declaring the “time of the Wild West is over” and threatening sanctions if Twitter didn’t comply with DSA rules. She conflated illegal content with anything the elites deem offensive, setting the stage for today’s fine.
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