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Summary
A German court ruled that Elon Musk’s X must immediately provide researchers with data on politically related content ahead of Germany’s Feb. 23 election.
The lawsuit, filed by Democracy Reporting International and the Society for Civil Rights, accused X of blocking efforts to track election interference.
The ruling enforces the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), requiring major platforms to grant researcher access. It also orders X to pay legal costs and imposes a €6,000 procedural fine.
The decision sets a legal precedent, but it remains unclear if X will appeal.
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Me: *tries to read source*
Source: “No, you don’t.” *blocks*
Wow that’s fucked. The German government is mad that a private company won’t help them spy on their population. Europe is rapidly descending into barbarism.
Wtf arr you talking about
No, nevermind, I don’t care what your weird-ass spin is
What is your definition of barbarism?
€6,000 is peanuts to the worlds richest man, they should shut down access to the site until X comply.
You misundertand. Legal fees are not there as punishment, they are only there to prevent poor people for looking for justice.
A fine does not mean you get to keep doing it. Initially it just proves that tasking 4 people to just get the data would have been cheaper. Now he needs to do that and still task the people.
Next step is escalating if they do not comply. They did the same in Brazil escalating all the way to turning off Twitter.
I guess what I’m saying is “patience grasshopper”
Can’t find any proper information anywhere (someone link me the judgement) but that sounds like “you were supposed to file stuff in triplicate now we have to copy shit, here’s a fine” territory.
Here’s the press release of DRI itself, they don’t even mention it.
Even 1000x that fine would just be a rounding error to him. What gives with the low-ball punishment?
Legal penalties are often (mostly?) a set monetary amount. We need percentage penalties.
As of now it’s just a small thing. If X keeps denying the requested information the penalty can increase quickly by for example by setting a daily late fee of several million Euro. If X still doesn’t comply they can raid their German offices for the requested information. If X still doesn’t comply they can shut X down in Germany, maybe even in all of EU to force compliance.
But usually you don’t need the extreme stuff.
propably just doing things by the book without thinking or their legal system doesnt have a way to fine billionaires so they just let the bastard go without punishment.
This is a precursor to kicking X out of the country
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The fact that it hasn’t been banned outright in the EU is cowardice. This is such a horrible timeline we are living in. How in the world did the biggest governments in the entire world and legal systems just get cucked to the point where a literal hate platform ran by a Nazi sympathizer throwing sig heils all over the place is even allowed in Europe?
Most governments are designed, intentionally, to move at a snails pace.
Historically this is a good thing. You don’t want waves of populism leading to super powerful leaders that turn the government on its head their first week in charge.
But our society is advancing way faster than we did historically. My kids world is a totally different one than mine…my world is totally different than my parents…their world is totally different from their parents. Before that, the world didn’t change that much in a generation or two.
As a species, we have to figure out a better way to work together than nation-states while also being able to smooth out the wild emotions of the general public. We have real-time information and communication now. We have the entire sum of human knowledge in a pocket-sized device. We need an overhaul…but not like this.
Me-first politics is so convincing to so many people. And so easy to manipulate to benefit the powerful.
In America, Republicans I know would call Trump’s tax a great achievement because they got $50 a month in tax breaks. Meanwhile corporations and the mega wealthy were the only ones really benefiting from it.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the politicians over there don’t realize there are alternatives. I have yet to meet a politician that I would consider tech literate, much less tech savvy, and I am including Bernie in that. He may be an awesome politician, but he really doesn’t understand computers. The nice part is that he knows that, and listens to his IT guys.
Uhhh 6k he must be shitting his pants, stop being a fucking joke EU
All public social media data including the algorithm should be openly accessible to every government the network operates in.
