EU hits X with €120M fine for breaching the Digital Services Act

Why can a company be fined for not allowing "researchers" access to data? That seems bizarre to me.

They changed the blue check from an exclusive club of the rich and popular, to just Ive got a paying account. How is that misleading? Why does the EU have a say about design choices?

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46163721

eurofounder and compliantvc having blue checks was probably the final straw.

Crazy.

> "Europe is taxing Americans to subsidize a continent held back by Europe’s own suffocating regulations," Carr said.

And America is taxing Americans via tariffs to subsidize a corrupt executive branch lining its own pockets. At least Europe is looking out for a whole continent. Not just a handful of grifters.

> "Deceiving users with blue checkmarks, obscuring information on ads and shutting out researchers have no place online in the EU," said European Commission Vice President Henna Virkkunen.

I agree. Good EU!

> Pre-empting the announcement on Thursday night, United States Vice President JD Vance that "the EU should be supporting free speech not attacking American companies over garbage."

Sorry, but your garbage has influence outside the US. Keep it to yourself or clean up.

Deception and fraud aren't even protected by the 1st Amendment, and the blue checkmark scheme being pay-to-win is definitely leaning that way, if not just straight up there. Seems the EU thought is just is.

And if you care so much about free speech, maybe you should be more open about those ads of yours?