JD Vance - EU leader threatened Elon: "We'll arrest you if you platform Donald Trump"

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JD Vance - EU leader threatened Elon: "We'll arrest you if you platform Donald Trump"

Internal market EU Commissioner Thierry Breton wrote on X in July that the platform’s verification system of users using blue checks is deceiving.

“Now X has the right of defence —but if our view is confirmed we will impose fines & require significant changes,” he added.

Musk who responded at the time, saying: “We look forward to a very public battle in court, so that the people of Europe can know the truth.”

“The European Commission offered X an illegal secret deal: if we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us. The other platforms accepted that deal. X did not,” he added in another post.

At the time, X was facing disciplinary actions under the EU Digital Services Act that was put in place in 2022. The legislation includes a number of regulations stating that platforms have to take responsibility for protecting European users from illegal content and "disinformation."

This clip is from the Shawn Ryan Podcast, published in September- 2024

Transcript -
JD Vance: "The leader, I forget exactly which official it was within the European Union, but sent Elon this threatening letter that basically said, we're gonna arrest you if you platform Donald Trump, who, by the way, is the likely next president of The United States."

"So what America should be saying is, oh, if NATO wants us to continue supporting them and NATO wants us to continue to be a good participant in this military alliance, why don't you respect American values and respect free speech?"

"Excuse me. It's insane that we would support a military alliance if that military alliance isn't gonna be pro free speech. I think we can do both, but we've gotta say American power comes with certain strings attached."

"One of those is respect free speech, especially in our European allies. Like, look, I'm not gonna go to some backwoods country and tell them how to live their lives, but European countries should theoretically share American values especially about some very basic things like free speech."