BILLIONAIRE and social media platform owner, Elon Musk, has called Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, a ‘tyrant and traitor to the people of Spain’ over plans to ban children under 16 from using social media.
The measure- announced by Sanchez on Tuesday- will also include action against sites if they do not adequately police material on their sites.
Musk took to his own ‘X’ platform to blast Sanchez and reacted to a video where the Prime Minister announced a new legislative package that will include laws aimed at holding social media executives accountable for failing to properly police their platforms.
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Sanchez said social media platforms will have to implement age verification tools that actually work, not easily by-passable checkboxes, if they wish to operate in Spain.
Spain’s proposed regulation would give parents clear backing to set limits and would ease social pressure for children worried about missing out, said Diana Diaz, director of the ANAR Foundation for at-risk children and adolescents.
Musk expressed his disapproval of the new measures, calling the Spanish leader ‘Dirty Sanchez’ as well as posting an emoji of excrement.
About an hour and a half later, he escalated his criticism, posting on X: “Sanchez is the true fascist totalitarian.”
The billionaire last week attacked him over plans to regularise thousands of undocumented migrants in Spain.
On Tuesday, French authorities conducted a search of X’s Paris offices as part of an investigation into algorithm manipulation and possible foreign interference, in which Musk has been called to testify.
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Rich coming from Musk who supports other suppression that Trump is trying, that is voter supression. Musk himself, a right-wing Afrikanner, who supported the Nazis, has no room to speak. He is the definition of a fascist like his daddy, Trump. He supported AfD in the German election, wouldn’t be surprised if he’s secretly supporting VOX both on X and financially.
Aussie here, we have already introduced legislation to this effect and it’s been running for over a month bringing a sigh of relief to parents here. Musk also accused our government of trying to control the internet. Our PM said he was an arrogant billionaire and our treasurer said it wasn’t our job to please the X owner. Maybe the French governments raid on the X office in Paris has upset him as well. The sooner he gets on a spaceship to Mars the better.
A.A Sydney.
Gordon / Alice
Both really intelligent comments ..
He’s a truly awful human individual who is very very likely a sex offender like Trump and all the other sick puppy friends of Epstein!
I mean the fact he slings insults about people being ‘paedos’ is highly suspect in itself.
X is a cancer that needs treatment…