Tech billionaire Elon Musk has confirmed Twitter will submit to the European Union’s online censorship regime, telling French media: “If a law is enacted, Twitter commits to comply with it.”
His response came in reference to the Digital Services Act, an EU-wide law which requires large platforms to enforce the EU’s strict and censorious rules on alleged misinformation and hate speech.
France’s government, which alongside Germany is the driving force in the EU, threatened Twitter would be banned in the bloc if it failed to follow its rules three weeks ago.
The EU has nothing resembling America’s First Amendment, with the section of the European Convention on Human Rights which supposedly enshrines the right to freedom of expression making it clear that this right can be abridged “in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary.”
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