This all seems fair enough, but it has outraged the European Union:
In response to the move to suspend the journalists who shared the information, EU commissioner Vera Jourova said that Twitter may face sanctions under the bloc’s newly implemented Digital Services Act (DSA) for, it is claimed, failing to protect media freedom.
Failing to protect media freedom! That can only provoke hollow laughter.
“[The] EU’s Digital Services Act requires respect of media freedom and fundamental rights. This is reinforced under our Media Freedom Act,” she wrote on Twitter.
“Elon Musk should be aware of that. There are red lines. And sanctions, soon,” the EU commissioner said, adding that “news about arbitrary suspension of journalists on Twitter is worrying.”
It is not hard to see whose side the EU is on, nor is it surprising. Musk can expect to face ongoing harassment from that source.
Join the conversation as a VIP Member