It must be exhausting being Elon Musk. Alongside sending rockets into space, working on brain implants and running one of the world’s biggest social-media firms, he seems to have a plethora of beefs to attend to.
The arrogance of EU officialdom knows no bounds.
So soon after Musk’s war of words with Keir Starmer, over the UK PM’s handling of the recent unrest, an old Brussels-based foe of his, European Commissioner Thierry Breton, has popped back up to chastise him for not ushering in censorship on X fast enough.
Last night, Breton posted an open letter, channelling a jobsworth tax inspector, reminding Musk of his obligations, under the EU’s 2022 Digital Services Act (DSA), to take down various forms of ‘harmful content’. After some uproar today, the European Commission has said that Breton’s letter did not have the approval of its president Ursula Von der Leyen. ‘Thierry has his own mind and way of working and thinking,’ said an official, coldly.
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