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Top EU official on Twitter deal: ‘In Europe, the bird will fly by our rules’

by LLB Reporter
28th Oct 22 11:13 am

Amid fears that Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter and his stance as a “free speech absolutist” could turn it into a platform for hate speech, Thierry Breton, the commissioner for internal market of the European Union, has weighed in.

Responding to Musk’s tweet, he said: “In Europe, the bird will fly by our rules.”

He used the the hashtag DSA – a reference to the Digital Services Act, one of two new packages of EU legislation designed to tighten regulation of social media.

Guy Verhofstadt, a former Belgian prime minister and lead Brexit negotiator for the EU, now leader of the Liberals in the European Parliament, says: “So one man @elonmusk now owns the biggest debate in the world… The need for rules and accountability is bigger than ever ! Self-regulation in social media has never worked… even with lesser characters than his”

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