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The European Commission offered an illegal secret deal: if we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us.

The other platforms accepted that deal.

X did not.

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FireBeyond 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

And as we all know, Elon is physically unable to lie. Of course there's no actual evidence for this "illegal secret deal".

-- sent from the front seat of my FSD-based unmanned Robotaxi

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	▲	FireBeyond 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		When I look for the group "most likely to call Elon out on his (copious, regular) 'actual lies'", "EU politicians" isn't the group I go to. > But they all staid 100% silent on this. Speaking of "actual lies", this is one. > Firing back on X, the [European] commissioner [for Internal Market Thierry Breton] denied the existence of a secret deal and said no such bargain had been made with any other platforms: > Be our guest @elonmusk > There has never been — and will never be — any “secret deal”. With anyone. > The DSA provides X (and any large platform) with the possibility to offer commitments to settle a case. > To be extra clear: it’s YOUR team who asked the Commission to explain the process for settlement and to clarify our concerns. > We did it in line with established regulatory procedures. Up to you to decide whether to offer commitments or not. That is how rule of law procedures work. > See you (in court or not). Source: https://x.com/ThierryBreton/status/1811811489889517697 So I'm inclined to believe Elon lied, as he does with painful monotony. Especially when, oh yeah, when Elon and X were asked to respond to this... they didn't.

So the EC are the bad guys masquerading as free speech loving democracy?