Commission opens formal proceedings against X under the Digital Services Act

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Musk keeps repeating that X always follows local laws and regulations, but in practice it seems to only apply to countries like Turkey and Saudi Arabia. Curious.

Interesting that it is timed with the recent launch of Threads in EU. Will definitely establish a compliance benchmark for X.

But the big problem for X is that Musk burned so many bridges with fired employees that the list of whistleblowers for any issues will be endless.

If the recent leak about the moderation policies for Twitter is correct, they don't actually want to remove that kind of content. So it might not be a matter of not having enough moderators right now but also an intentional policy decision to not sanction posts like this.

I can't find an English source here and the original is paywalled, but from a German article (https://www.heise.de/news/Leak-Leugnung-des-Holocaust-und-me...) summarizing the original reporting comes the following example of a tweet that is allegedly allowed now:

> Next stop on our tour across Poland is Auschwitz. For Jews this is the last stop, please exit and take your luggage with you.

It also mentions that threats of physical are no longer a reason for suspending accounts.