by Frank Bergman, Slay News:
Elon Musk has blown the whistle on an alleged plot by unelected European Union (EU) bureaucrats to blackmail his social media platform X into censoring users.
Musk claims eurocrat members of the EU’s European Commission tried to pressure his company into agreeing to an “illegal secret deal” to avoid huge fines.
According to Musk, the EU offered him a deal to avoid the fines by secretly censoring content on X at the behest of Brussels.
Musk says he rejected the deal before exposing it in a post on X.
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However, he also accused other social platforms of taking such deals.
The push to censor social media users, on a global scale, is being led by European Commissioner Thierry Breton.
Breton is an unelected bureaucrat who wields significant, unchecked power.
Led by Breton, the European Union moved to make its new Digital Services Act (DSA) felt on Friday.
Breton is accusing Musk-owned X of breaching these EU rules and is threatening huge fines until the company complies with the demands.
Musk hit back immediately, saying the DSA itself was the source of “misinformation.”
In a post on X, Musk revealed that the European Union had tried to broker an “illegal secret deal” with him to usher in the EU-directed censorship.
Musk wrote in his claim:
“The European Commission offered [X] an illegal secret deal: if we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us.”
“The other platforms accepted that deal.”
However, Musk asserted that he rejected the EU deal.
The European Commission offered 𝕏 an illegal secret deal: if we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us.
The other platforms accepted that deal.
𝕏 did not. https://t.co/4lKsaRsYoA
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 12, 2024
Musk added: “We look forward to a very public battle in court so that the people of Europe can know the truth.”
