$1m per character

X is likely losing money in the EU at this point, and complying with the rules would also cost them money and/or reputation. Maybe they should consider pulling out.

It would have been hilarious if they hit X with a $420M fine

>"I think it's very important to underline that DSA is having nothing to do with censorship,"

Only under the EUs backwards idea that if it makes speech illegal it's not censorship.

>its failure to provide researchers access to public data.

I don't want my X posts being handed over to researchers even if they are technically public. On social media and chat platforms there is an expectation of the posts and chat messages you make to be private due to being in an obscure section of the website. Just look out the outrage over people's privacy that happens every time someone makes a public search engine of everyone's chat messages on a Discord that has an open invitation link. People's idea of privacy does not align with the idea that anything public should be widely spread with others.

I think its a cleaner approach. In US if its for profits its not censorship, which is censorship with extra steps. As we speak videos, images and sounds are routinely deleted from Youtube, X and other places for copyright. Apps are blocked, code repos are deleted for similar reasons. Youtube-dl anyone?

USA also forced TikTok to sell to US owners. Maybe that's a better approach to control speech, who knows right?

I know its very unpopular opinion but if it quacks like a duck it is a duck. There's mass censorship that is happening, just different justifications.

IMHO content should be deletable by 3rd parties at all.

Why is it so low? When will big corps get jailed for their actions?