Buterin urges Musk to steer X away from rising anti-EU sentiments

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin believes the backlash towards the European Union is “getting unhinged,” and is asking Tesla and xAI CEO Elon Musk to help make social platform X a “death star laser” for hate speech. Buterin has stepped into the debate over Europe’s approach to digital regulation, after US government officials and opinion leaders kept attacking the EU for imposing a €120 million enforcement action against social platform X under the bloc’s Digital Services Act, Cryptopolitan reported . The Russian programmer wrote on X that some of the criticisms he had seen in recent days from commentators he regarded as “interesting and sophisticated” were overstretched. “I get that EU has problems – GDPR clickthroughs are dumb, Chat Control is awful, they need to be less bureaucratic and supportive toward entrepreneurs, its kindness toward Ukraine often doesn’t extend well to Gaza or Sudan or other places, but the apocalyptic attitude...

https://www.cryptopolitan.com/vitalik-defends-europe-against-x-backlash/