EU has generated higher income from discretionary, ad-hoc, one-off fines to American companies than it has generated from yearly regular European tech businesses.
Probably because European tech businesses try to comply with regulations that protect EU citizens' right.
Probably because the American hyper-mega corporations think they can do whatever they want and get away with it. It works in America because lobbyism is practically legal.
blue checkmarks that literal bots buy: consumer deception, 9 dollars to be “verified” -> impersonation
opaque ads: no archive of ads’ content, who bought the ads, etc.
lockdown of public content APIs: and this is personal to me, because to work with X API’s I have to give my credit card; but this denied access to public data by researchers (transparency)
What worries me the most is that people are protecting a billionaire that hate-cried on its own platform. Hate fabrication just because said billionaire failed to comply with basic transparency.
Blue checkmark is not deceptive at all. Outside of the first few months of people complaining about the clear change in policy, it has long been clear that the purpose is to levy a monetary cost on posting to attempt to limit bots, similar to here and other older concepts on charging for email. IG now has the exact same thing. The old blue check verification system was completely corrupt and non-transparent at all, people paying insiders for checkmarks etc.
I hate half of the toxic stuff that's posted on X but it's the best free speech major social media platform and that's why I paid for a blue checkmark on day 1.
Yeah, I didn’t like the previous blue check either. What prevents bots or deceptive profiles from buying a blue check?
I mean the real problem is that you can now buy a blue check. There's no verification involved, and everybody can create a new disposable credit card if that's the verification
Did you actually checked what the fines are about?
The ones I checked are really reasonable and I would actually highly prefer for those tech companies to comply instead of eating the fine and not comply.
EU is a pirate state that is stealing from everybodyEU is great 10/10 would vote again(never voted)