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[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇪🇺🇺🇸 THE EU JUST FIRED A €120 MILLION WARNING AT X - AND IT BACKFIRED IMMEDIATELY

The European Commission has finally done what it has been threatening for nearly 2 years:

It slapped Elon’s X with a €120 million fine - the first-ever punishment under the Digital Services Act.

Officially, Brussels says this is about “transparency,” “interface design,” and “research access.”

Unofficially, everyone knows what this is really about:

Europe wants control over online speech, and X refuses to play hall monitor for the EU bureaucracy.

And Washington just noticed.

@JDVance did what any hero would have done.

The man didn’t bother with diplomatic phrasing. He called it exactly what it is:

“A fine for not engaging in censorship.

The EU should be supporting free speech, not attacking American companies over garbage.”

@ElonMusk’s response? 2 words: “Much appreciated.”

That exchange matters, because it crystallizes the growing fracture between Washington and Brussels on digital governance.

The EU sees the internet as an environment to police.

The U.S. - at least the current White House - sees speech as something to protect.

This is not a small disagreement. It goes to the core of whose values define the next century of the web.

Europe insists this isn’t censorship... but its actions tell a different story.

The Commission says X is being punished for deceptive design and insufficient transparency in its ad library.

Yet TikTok - whose data practices have triggered national-security alarms in half the Western world - walked away with no fine, simply by promising to tweak its interface.

The message is unmistakable:

Comply with EU speech rules? No problem.

Challenge Brussels’ narrative control? Prepare your checkbook.

For a bloc obsessed with “tech sovereignty,” this is an extraordinary way to demonstrate insecurity.

U.S. officials have been warning for months that the DSA drifts into censorship.

Now Europe has handed them Exhibit A.

Expect renewed U.S. pressure in trade talks, increased scrutiny of EU regulatory bias, more aggressive defenses of American platforms, and faster tech decoupling between Washington and Brussels.

For Europe, a deeper question looms:

Is the DSA protecting citizens - or protecting political power?

The ugly truth: Europe risks regulating itself into irrelevance.

While Brussels plays digital sheriff, its startups collapse under compliance costs.

Its industrial base is shrinking.

Its demographic crisis accelerates.

Its dependence on U.S. security grows...

And its contribution to global innovation keeps sliding.

Meanwhile, the platforms it tries to bully - X, Google, Apple, Meta, Amazon - remain overwhelmingly American.

Europe is fighting for control over an ecosystem it did not build, does not direct, and increasingly cannot influence without threats and fines.

That is not sovereignty. It is dependency dressed up as policy.

The bigger fight isn’t about X. It’s about the future of the open internet.

What happens next will set the tone for years:

If the EU gets away with punishing platforms for “non-compliance,” regulation becomes a weapon.

If the U.S. pushes back effectively, free speech stays the default norm for the democratic world.

Right now, Brussels is betting that tech giants will bend. But X just became the first major test case that refuses to kneel.

Europe wanted to send a message.

Instead, it started a transatlantic fight - and exposed its own anxieties in the process.

[Lyn Alden @LynAldenContact]

@WalkerAmerica

[Nic @puckrin]

Risk is always better than regret.

Risk carries the chance to win or learn, while regret carries nothing but what-ifs.

[Michael A. Arouet @MichaelAArouet]

Just a friendly reminder that German economic demise is self-inflicted. Choices have consequences, you get what you vote for.

[Santiago Capital @SantiagoAuFund]

Just because its a work of fiction doesn’t mean it isn’t true…

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

The greatest Bitcoin explanation of all time.

[Ran Neuner @cryptomanran]

It baffles my mind how there could be resistance in the US to what @elonmusk is doing.

It is literally the only hope the US has.

I can only conclude that those that oppose either hate the USA or are profiting from the overspend!

[JensD @JensDBE]

@QuintenFrancois MEGA

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

MILEI: EU POLITICIANS ARE KILLING GROWTH

“The vast majority of politicians that are here in Europe, and those who keep their chairs warm in Brussels, they just dedicate themselves to creating a comfortable environment for themselves, not for the people.

They have packed Europe with regulations, that's why Europe is the least growing place in the world.

As long as politicians are not willing to give up their privileges, they will continue to kill growth.”

Source: @JMilei, @ArgMilei

[JensD @JensDBE]

@Tim_4444 Veel litertjes soep

[Geert Noels @GeertNoels]

In "@deafspraaktv op Vrijdag" sust @pdegrauwe het "wegblazen vd automobielsector" door de groei met 75% vd industriële productie sinds 2000. "We hebben het wegvallen vd automobielproductie meer dan gecompenseerd".
"De toepassing van creatieve destructie".
Helaas onjuist.
🧵1/n

[Geert Noels @GeertNoels]

Er is geen "creatieve destructie" in België (toekomstgerichte activiteiten vervangen oude), er is "private destructie" bezig: private jobs verdwijnen en publieke jobs komen in de plaats. Dat creëert deficits, en die wil men financieren door kapitaal te confisceren. Een doomloop.

[Innerdevcrypto @Innerdevcrypto]

To be successful in anything: do not follow the human herd

1: To be wealthy, don´t take a 9-5 slave job (unless necessary for survival and to save for investing) and don´t follow normal finance. Set up own company or do crypto for example or be first in something

2: To be healthy, don´t eat carbs & sugar & buy in supermarket. Eat protein & fat & grow own food

3: To be happy, don´t look outside like everyone else. Look inside

4: To have real education, don´t go to university. Read your own books and use ai and the internet

5: To live your destiny, don´t listen to others. Listen to your heart & intuition

6: To stay strong, don´t focus on physical body only like everyone else. Cultivate chi & jing, save your sexual energy and train your tendons

7: To get attention & a message across, don´t talk a lot. Talk less but talk with extreme focus which power comes from cultivating silence I can go on forever with this list, but you get the point.

To be succesful & original: NEVER FOLLOW THE HUMAN HERD

[JensD @JensDBE]

@cryptomanran @banterbot_ What is the potential of $qubic ?

[JensD @JensDBE]

@QuintenFrancois What is a yearly impressions chart ?

[Quinten | 048.eth @QuintenFrancois]

In the top 100 most valuable tech companies there are barely 9 from the EU, while 61 are from the USA.

The EU lost all talent, capital and entrepreneurship to the USA in the 1990s during the tech boom because of overregulation and taxation.

The EU is now chasing away all talent, capital and entrepreuneurship once again in the web3 boom. They did not learn from their mistakes and are doing the exact same thing as in the 1990s.

MiCa regulations are coming and is making it nearly impossible for any company to flourish in the EU.

All web3 companies are moving to Dubai, Switzerland, Singapore or Hong Kong. All crypto people who haven't left the EU yet will do so soon, because it's been made impossible to work and innovate.

Imo we're seeing Europe fall in front of our eyes: regulations, taxation, migration,... It's no rocket science what it will look like in 30 years from now.

[Lyn Alden @LynAldenContact]

Freedom technologies aren't invincible, but they make authorities kind of go mask-off.

It's one thing for Brazil to ban Twitter/X, but it's another layer deep to then also go after everyday people for using VPNs to access it. The optics get harder with that.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨MUST WATCH: MR. BEAN'S DEFINITIVE DEFENSE OF FREE SPEECH (FULL VIDEO)

Rowan Atkinson:

"The clear problem with the outlawing of insult - is that too many things can be interpreted as such."

Source: @avavidan

[Geert Noels @GeertNoels]

Het beste relanceplan voor VL, B en Eu heeft geen extra geld nodig:
Bouw bureaucratie af, vereenvoudig en versnel daardoor procedures.
Helaas leven teveel mensen ondertussen van de complexiteit en de daarmee verbonden jobs.

[Willem Middelkoop @wmiddelkoop]

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