{"id":226355,"date":"2025-12-10T23:07:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T23:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/226355\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T23:07:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T23:07:14","slug":"mcguirk-why-musk-should-tell-the-eu-to-take-a-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/226355\/","title":{"rendered":"MCGUIRK: Why Musk should tell the EU to take a hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It is not a secret that the European Union wishes to censor political content on social media. <\/strong>This is, in fact, something that leading figures in the bloc say quite openly, most memorably when French President Macron <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/macron-mulls-cutting-access-social-media-during-riots\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suggested in 2023<\/a> that the state should have the power to arbitrarily shut down social media networks during riots or other times of crisis in order to stop the spread of political discontent.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the European Commission announced that it was fining Elon Musk\u2019s \u201cX\u201d \u20ac120m for the apparent crime of not having a \u201cblue tick\u201d system to the Union\u2019s liking, and not acting swiftly enough to remove content to the Commission\u2019s disliking.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This article is premium content<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Get unlimited access to Gript<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Support Gript and get exclusive content, full archives and an ad-free experience<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"v-btn v-btn--block v-btn--has-bg theme--light v-size--large accent mb-6\" href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/membership\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/gript.ie\/?memberful_endpoint=auth\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign in here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is not a secret that the European Union wishes to censor political content on social media. This&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,5914,1647,4893,13,14,49593,6,11,12,15,16,5,7,8,2772,65,66,67,879],"class_list":{"0":"post-226355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-censorship","11":"tag-elon-musk","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-featured-news","14":"tag-featurednews","15":"tag-free-speech","16":"tag-headlines","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topstories","24":"tag-twitter","25":"tag-world","26":"tag-world-news","27":"tag-worldnews","28":"tag-x"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115697788213793252","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}