The EU is asking Twitter to define their own moderation policies and enforce them.
So which is it? You want government to do this or private companies?
>The EU is asking Twitter to define their own moderation policies and enforce them. The EU wants a lot of things that aren't feasible. This is one of them. Elon stated plenty of times that the platform should not censor or moderate more speech than necessary. This position turns out to be "harmful" in the eyes of EU, because like the bureaucrats they are, they need everything under control or determined to be under scrutiny a priori(by labeling speech by certain criterias). Imagine a new form of content that does not fall under any current regulation/moderation policies. By default it should not be problematic, because it's not "illegal". Thus my point: what EU deems misinfo/illegal is a slippery slope and will never, ever be satisfied. Unless of course we include a whole lot of nothing-speech.
>So which is it? You want government to do this or private companies?
Neither, or both. Depends if you think my answer is actual "moderation"(or censorship/removal of speech) or providing context in the form of fact-checking(community notes or whatever). If governments want to "fact-check" they should go ahead and do it. Otherwise if they simply just demand that the private company or they themselves(through some intermediaries) want speech removed, that's plain text censorship.[A little note: it's worse than that, you de facto have an actual fascist collusion between the state and private enterprises].
For myself, I see a grey area of information, which, while it may not be illegal, can be considered as harmful to people.
If the EU wanted to censor everything they disagree with, they would declare it illegal. That would be overreach in my opinion.
I however don't see it as unreasonable to ask that companies providing a platform take steps to protect their users from some kinds of information and are clear about what steps they will take to do so.
Maybe a slippery slope there, but equally having no moderation carries its own real harms.