Social media: L’UE risponde alle accuse della Silicon Valley
https://www.lepoint.fr/monde/reseaux-sociaux-l-ue-replique-aux-accusations-de-la-silicon-valley-11-01-2025-2579749_24.php
di Ar-Sakalthor
Social media: L’UE risponde alle accuse della Silicon Valley
https://www.lepoint.fr/monde/reseaux-sociaux-l-ue-replique-aux-accusations-de-la-silicon-valley-11-01-2025-2579749_24.php
di Ar-Sakalthor
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>The European Commissioner for Digital Sovereignty, Henna Virkkunen, said on Saturday 11 January that the European Union would guarantee respect for the rights of its citizens on social networks and ensure that the American tech giants comply with its regulations.
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>‘Social media platforms play a huge role in people’s daily lives, but they also have huge social and economic importance and influence. In Europe, we want to create a digital environment that is safe and fair’, wrote Henna Virkkunen on X. ‘Our task is to ensure that the rights of European citizens are respected and that our legislation is applied. This guarantees a level playing field and a safe online environment for all’, she continued.
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>This message follows Mark Zuckerberg’s shock announcement about his content moderation policy in the United States. The head of Meta has announced that he will be doing away with his fact-checking service, i.e. the people who verify the information and content posted on his platforms, in the name, he claims, of freedom of expression.
>In his press release, the billionaire took the opportunity to accuse Europe, whose rules on the regulation of digital content he disapproves of, of ‘institutionalising censorship’, echoing Elon Musk, who has spoken out against major EU legislation on this issue. Brussels refutes these accusations.
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**European parliamentarians are worried**
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>In an interview with well-known podcaster Joe Rogan on Friday, Mark Zuckerberg urged Donald Trump to intervene to protect major US technology firms from measures imposed by the European Union. ‘I think it’s a strategic advantage for the United States to have many of the strongest companies in the world. And I think it should be part of the US strategy going forward to defend that,’ he said. ‘One of the things I’m optimistic about with President Trump is that I think he just wants America to win,’ he continued.
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>MEPs have stepped up their calls to the European Commission, which oversees digital in the EU, expressing concern that Brussels may be reluctant to apply new technology regulations following the election of Donald Trump.
I mean, can you call is accusations if you’re being accused of doing the right thing?
Lmao
there’s a giant irreducible mentality gap between Europe and the US. it’s not needed to go into the specifics (which would require talking about calvinism and other cultural aspects). When europe was dominated by monarchies, popes, and still feudal lords in some places, the US could convincingly sell itself as the actual “land of the free”. Fastforwards 3 centuries, US have become the “land of being slave to corporations”. Europeans don’t want to get sodomized by them. it’s simple to understand.
You can’t expect foreign tech platforms hosted overseas to adhere to EU regulations, this is why, when you go to a US website you don’t see the same cookies and privacy regulations you see in a EU site.
The only solution here is to develop native social media that is done by Europeans for Europeans.
How will we ever get by without eLOn + Bot’s fake reality?
With the power of oligarchs, the US and Russia are more similar than the world dares to admit. And now came the inane Greenland and Gulf of America comments
Just ban meta apps in the EU, sure we’ll manage without
‘The Opium Wars resulted in China signing unequal treaties that forced the country to open treaty ports to Western merchants, grant trade concessions, and pay reparations. These treaties weakened the Chinese government’s authority and are considered part of the “century of humiliation”.’