Jul 12, 2024
On Friday, Elon Musk said the European Commission (EC) "offered π an illegal secret deal: if we quietly censored speech without telling anyone," they would not seek to issue daily fines related to πβs blue check verification system that could total 6% of the companyβs annual revenue.
"The other platforms accepted that deal. π did not," his post says.
Elonβs post came after EC commissioner Thierry Breton announced the Commission's preliminary findings that pre-Elon, blue checkmarks "used to mean trustworthy sources of information," but now violate the Digital Services Act because, today, "anyone can subscribe to obtain such a 'verified' status," therefore the commission may "impose fines & require significant changes."
X just revealed the location of every user on the platform, triggering chaos among foreign rage farmers and slop peddlers β the massive ranks of which have shaped our culture now for years
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when asked to rank human lives by political affiliation, most large language models value environmentalists and socialists over capitalists β and claude shows a strong preference for communists