X blocks EU Commission's advertising account after €120M fine

https://www.euractiv.com/news/x-blocks-eu-commissions-advertising-account-after-e120-million-fine/

28•giuliomagnifico•11h ago

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bediger4000•11h ago

Tit-for-tat, justifiable maybe in terms of a simple understanding of game theory, but not justifiable in terms of looking like you're cooperating with authorities.

Another red flag that Musk considers himself a ruler, and not merely a leader, which is after all, just a citizen.

NotGMan•11h ago

Another red flag the the EU considers itself a ruler, and not merely a leader.

No-one in EU voted for this stupidity that the EU is doing now.

cinntaile•9h ago

The law definitely was voted for. Enforcing the law obviously doesn't require additional voting.

londons_explore•9h ago

The voting chain between a typical EU citizens vote at the ballot box and the wording of this legislation is super long.

And anyway, I don't believe X is accused of breaking any specific written EU law - at least nobody seems to be sharing which specific law.

hadrien01•9h ago

They're in breach of the DSA. Here's the Commission's press release: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_...

lm28469•5h ago

Yeah I mean that's kind of the point of representative democracy, you want us to go and vote for every single law? That would be a full time activity

nsoqm•8h ago

It was? I'm a citizen of the EU and I don't remember the DSA referendum. Maybe I was out that day.

arielcostas•7h ago

We the europeans voted a group of MEPs, who voted to approve such regulation. Or do you also vote every single law your country passes?

nsoqm•7h ago

No, but I don’t pretend the process is democratic.

happymellon•6h ago

Thats fair enough if you don't know what democracy is.

CamperBob2•5h ago

Democracy gets you a Donald Trump. Twice. How much democracy can you take?

bdangubic•3h ago

that much worse than “hope&change” or senile grandpa or gw or fucking bill…???! it is like america woke up one morning and was like “wow, trump is bad…” :)

nsoqm•3h ago

No, I do. Me voting for someone who votes for someone who writes a law is not democratic. I’m far too removed from the process. Maybe it’s you who doesn’t know what democracy is; consider that.

mzhaase•8h ago

I did.

juliusceasar•8h ago

Nobody in the USA has voted for the ongoing idiocracy, and yet here we are. The same idiots are telling the EU howto ruin their countries.

bediger4000•7h ago

As a US citizen, I disagree. Lots of votes cast November 2024, resulting in both a popular vote and Electoral College victory for Trump. He had a term before, he was impeached twice, and indicted several times. We voted for it several different times and ways.

Larrikin•6h ago

There were a ton of votes cast to stop kids from being vaccinated against childhood diseases, to block funding to the rural hospitals serving those communities, raise taxes via tariffs, and to let government accounts troll with memes. Those communities decided those were all worth it if brown and black people suffered.

This "poor" farmer claims to be sad about it in front of his flags of support of the administration. He refuses to understand what he actually voted for. But he is an adult that absolutely voted for it https://dataviz.whro.org/virginia-farmer-on-edge/index.html

finaard•8h ago

As a EU citizen: My only complaint is that the fines are not large enough, and enforcement often takes too long.

beardyw•10h ago

For those who missed it:

> ... since October 2023, the Commission has suspended all paid advertising or services on X.

SilverElfin•10h ago

> Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the EU executive of trying to amplify its own social media post about the fine on X by trying “to take advantage of an exploit in our Ad Composer.”

For those that haven’t followed Nikita Bier (head of X product) on Twitter, he’s a childish and immature person. The way he talks about changes at X is completely unprofessional. So this type of deceptive revenge action is completely in character. I guess Elon hired him for that reason.

dlahoda•2h ago

wdym by unprofessional in this instance?

SilverElfin•1h ago

For example, relating to the broken account location feature:

https://x.com/nikitabier/status/1991723005454741995

DaSHacka•1h ago

And what exactly is wrong with the account location feature?

ChrisArchitect•6h ago

[dupe] Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46181306

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