When the European Commission announcedthat it imposes a punishment of EUR 120 million on the X Elona platform, the reactions were immediate. any began putting the flags of the European Union in their accounts, almost displacing their nationality and becoming "European citizens". Others began to compose about the importance of media regulation. But there were besides those who had any sense and logically thought they understood that this was no punishment for blue stamps, but for disobedience to Eurokołchoz.
The European Commission has hit service X financially. However, this decision had nothing to do with the alleged concern for users. It's just a power demonstration. Brussels has long dreamed of submitting to the full digital world. The fight present is about who controls the flow of information.
Elon Musk — whether he likes him or not — did something that the EU elites do not forgive him. He restored to X the rule of freedom of speech, and in the most classical sense: the right to compose and say things uncomfortable, incorrigible and sometimes brutal, but true. And this is something that the modern Union hates most. due to the fact that you can't build a control camera on a free word. You gotta let people think, and a reasoning citizen is simply a hard citizen to manage.
The EU uses the DSA – this digital code of conduct – as a tool that becomes a modern muzzle in the hands of an official. punishment for Musk is simply a signal for all platforms: you can act, but only within the limits that we set.
It is no coincidence that the first goal has become a platform that is most distant from the European model of communicative control. A punishment of EUR 120 million for the "deceptive blue ticks" and besides mediocre transparency of advertising sounds like a weak pretext — as if individual were desperately looking for a paragraph to hit a large player. According to the principle: “Give me a man, and I will find a paragraph on him.”
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio estimated that the fine imposed was an attack on all American technology platforms and the American nation from abroad governments. In a series of entries, Musk, to which the sanctioned platform belongs, called for the EU to be dissolved. president Donald Trump besides criticized the decision personally.
The full issue raises the question: what will happen in the future? If the European Commission can decide which principles of freedom of speech are right, will it not go any further and begin to dictate to us what views we may have and what religion we may believe in — or, indeed, not believe in anything?
Let us consider whether we want to live in a planet where the content we will see, regulate and censor the European Union's digital inspectorate? Therefore, Polyxit is not just an option, but a necessity. We request to get out of this boat as shortly as possible before it drags us under with it.
Written by Roman Majewski.
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