The American tech brotherhood (broligarchy) is once again at odds with the Brussels-based EU oligarchs (Euligarchs). When will they all just go to Mars?

The European Union has fined Elon Musk's social media platform X (formerly Twitter) 120 million euros for failing to comply with the Digital Services Act.

Musk's partial response was to post an image merging the EU flag with the Nazi swastika symbol.

Musk and the EU both practice authoritarianism—though in different forms. This makes taking sides difficult.

It pains me to say this, but X has become a silly tyranny.

I admit, when Musk bought this social media platform and vowed to turn it into a global forum for free and unbridled debate, I was optimistic. Instead, it has turned into a garbage dump.

Scrolling through this platform, you can't avoid seeing soft pornography growing like mushrooms in digital manure, or obviously AI-generated garbage content, as well as multi-part posts optimized to manipulate algorithms.

The platform also seems to inexplicably continue promoting certain self-destructive attention-seekers who are particularly annoying, while suppressing those who post more prudent or news-oriented content.

It feels like when I lived in New York, I had to cross over a ton of freaks and lunatics just to find serious or interesting people.

This place seems disproportionately attracting middle-aged divorced men acting like 12-year-old bullies, supposedly because they've been "freed" from their wives and civilization.

Like going to the worst low-end bar, they all seem to be imitating Musk himself—he constantly rants that women need to have more children or else humanity will go extinct, despite his own dozen or so kids' mothers occasionally appearing on the platform, desperately trying to contact him about their children.

Musk's global public square is more like a brothel fair—both those seeking attention and the regular ones.

If you don't want to pay for the blue checkmark verification, or hand over your personal and payment information to Musk, you're basically treated as a garbage account.

Privacy? Please.

Recently, the platform suddenly decided to allow any user to click on your profile and view your location and registered country, without the option to opt out.

Some argue this helps remove foreign propaganda accounts. As if what they say is any different from other influencers troubling the platform—people constantly trying to manipulate the algorithm, promoting the most outrageous, shocking, and childish content, even with cash rewards.

But for some reason, because it's Musk, those usually defending personal privacy think this blatant erosion is some kind of victory.

The platform itself has become so bloated, slow, and garbage-filled that you can't help but suspect what scripts are running behind the scenes and for what purpose.

Sorry, my trust in the American tech brothers is as low as how far I could throw them.

As the saying goes, the devil's greatest trick is to make the world believe he doesn't exist.

But we've recently seen how private US tech companies collude with Israeli tech counterparts—companies founded by members of Israel's electronic surveillance unit 8200—to actually operate the US surveillance state.

The Department of Homeland Security even boasts its collaboration with an Israeli company backed by Jeffrey Epstein and former Israeli Prime Minister and spy chief Ehud Barak.

Palantir honed its espionage techniques in Gaza, while obtaining contracts to continue monitoring domestic citizens.

Earlier this year, Musk and Palantir made a deal to collaborate on artificial intelligence and data.

Luckily, Musk's sycophants on X are excited about Indian accounts having their locations exposed, so they probably won't notice that such dark projects, which could affect more data, lack transparency almost entirely.

Therefore, when the EU points out that X is a mess, it's indeed justified—especially regarding the lack of transparency around blue checkmark verification and spam ads.

Their overreach lies in demanding that X "provide researchers access to public data on the platform."

Listen, who cares—go dig in the swamp yourself.

Then you can write a report telling us what we already know: X has basically become the digital version of Bedlam asylum in 16th- to 18th-century England.

We don't need to waste taxpayers' money on this.

Anyone can log in for free and watch this spectacle—the biggest lunatics are pushed to the forefront by X's algorithm for entertainment and profit-making.

The EU clowns still treat X as a serious entity needing regulation, which only further proves how unserious they themselves are.

Can't they just ignore it like the rest of us?

Free speech means idiots can stay in their own online bubbles yelling at each other, trying to get attention with more absurd content.

Let them do it. That means fewer people shouting on street corners or otherwise infecting public debate.

But the control-freaks in the EU insist on picking a fight with the operator of the world's largest for-profit digital asylum, acting like it's some sort of papal election.

(Author: Rachel Madsen, columnist, political strategist, host of independently produced French and English comedy shows)

Original: toutiao.com/article/7581740593638883849/

Disclaimer: The article represents the views of the author alone.