American technology billionaire Elon Musk called for the European Union to be dissolved after the block imposed a fine on his social platform X.
On Friday, the European Commission imposed a fine of EUR 120 million ($ 163 million) on X for "Infringement of transparency obligations" under the Digital Services Act of 2022, which establishes standards of liability and content moderation.
The ruling considers the Blue Platform Markers strategy to be ‘misleading’ and has been accused of mediocre advertising transparency and deficiency of the required access to data.
In a series of posts on Saturday Musk, who frequently accuses Brussels of imposing excessive regulation, argued that "EU bureau is slow strangling Europe".
"The EU should be abolished and sovereignty restored to individual countries so that governments can better represent their nations" – wrote Musk, calling the block "a bureaucratic monster".
Musk, owner of Tesla and SpaceX, previously described the EU as "Gigantic cathedral of bureaucracy", arguing that excessive regulation hampers innovation.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio criticized the ruling, calling it "an attack on all American technology platforms and the American people by abroad governments". U.S. Vice president J.D. Vance said the EU accused X of “no censorship”.
US Ambassador to the EU Andrew Puzder besides condemned this decision, saying Washington "confronts censorship and will question burdensome regulations aimed at US companies abroad".
Vice-President of the European Commission for Technology Sovereignty, safety and Democracy, Henna Virkkunen, defended the penalties, claiming that "suspecting users with blue selection tags, concealing information in ads and blocking access to researchers is not happening online in the EU".
Polish abroad Minister Radosław Sikorski responded to the tirada of Muska, publishing the entry: “Go to Mars. There is no censorship of Nazi salutes there”, referring to accusations that the entrepreneur performed a salute during the inauguration of U.S. president Donald Trump's second word in January 2025.
Translated by Google Translator
source:https://www.rt.com/news/629127-musk-calls-for-eu-abolished/
