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Different figures in the United States Government have harshly criticized the decision of the European Commission to fine the social network X 120 million euros, announced this Friday.
The US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has stated after learning of the sanction against Elon Musk’s company that the fine of 120 million euros imposed by the European Commission “is not only an attack on an attack on all American technology platforms and the American people por by foreign governments.”
In this sense, in a message published through his profile on X, Rubio has assured thatand “the days of censoring Americans online are over.”
In a similar tone, Brendan Carr, Chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has lamented that “once again, Europe is fining a successful US technology company for being a successful US technology company.”
“Europe is taxing Americans to subsidize a slowed continent by Europe’s own suffocating regulations,” Carr adds in a message published on Elon Musk.
Washington’s angry reaction to the fine imposed on X was anticipated hours before the sanction was announced, after the vice president of the United States, JD Vance, stated in the aforementioned social network that The European Union should “support freedom of expression” instead of “attacking” American companies.
“Rumors are circulating that the European Commission will fine
In response to the comment of the US Vice President, the Minister for Digital Transformation and the Public Service, Oscar Lopezsupported the European Commission this Friday and called the comments made by Vance “intolerable.”
“European digital sovereignty is a political priority for Spain. We want to give all our support to the actions that the (European) Commission is taking,” López stressed during his participation in the meeting of the Council of Telecommunications Ministers of the European Union in Brussels.
“I have just read the messages that the Vice President of the United States (JD Vance) posted last night in X, intolerable messages, precisely in X, in relation to the file on
The Trump Administration has on several occasions pressured its European partners so that the EU relax legislation on digital services and markets considering that it is pursuing the American technology giants.
On a visit to Brussels in late November, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer expressed Washington’s “significant concerns” about EU digital legislation, adding that the limits (of the
The fine to X
After two years of investigation, the Commission of Ursula bon der Leyen this Friday, imposed a minimum fine of 120 million on platform “fool” its users with its famous ‘blue check mark’.
It is the first sanction imposed by the Community Executive under the Digital Services Lawwhich forces technology giants to combat illegal products and content circulating on their platforms.
Brussels maintains that the blue mark offered by X in exchange for payment violates the prohibition of misleading design provided for in the Digital Services Law, given that makes it seem like there is a real verified user behind the beads with the blue mark.