Today the [@EUCommission](https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission) backs down and fails to curtail Twitter: [https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/mex\_24\_5324#:\~:text=Commission%20concludes%20that%20online%20social%20networking%20service%20of%20X%20should%20not%20be%20designated%20under%20the%20Digital%20Markets%20Act](https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/mex_24_5324#:~:text=Commission%20concludes%20that%20online%20social%20networking%20service%20of%20X%20should%20not%20be%20designated%20under%20the%20Digital%20Markets%20Act) "...X also submitted rebuttal arguments, explaining why its online social networking service should not, in its view, qualify as an important gateway between businesses and consumers, even if X is deemed to meet the quantitative thresholds set out in the DMA." "..the Commission concluded that X does indeed not qualify as a gatekeeper in relation to its online social networking service.." [@politics](https://lemmy.world/c/politics) (1/2)
"As I tried to follow the UK riots from Brussels using X, time and again I saw von der Leyen's carefully coiffed Christian-Democrat torso issuing some polite EU statement, while sandwiched ... between video-clips getting off on anti-migrant violence, pro-Russian bots, and OnlyFans links." \~[@vonderleyen](https://respublicae.eu/@vonderleyen) is on Mastodon where are the others?\~ (Actually [@vonderleyen](https://respublicae.eu/@vonderleyen) is an unofficial automated mirror, thanks [@oilheap](https://infosec.exchange/@oilheap) for pointing that out). [https://euobserver.com/EU%20&%20the%20World/ar1eb43d53](https://euobserver.com/EU%20&%20the%20World/ar1eb43d53) [\#Xodus](https://social.edu.nl/tags/Xodus) [#EU](https://social.edu.nl/tags/EU) [@fediverse](https://lemmy.world/c/fediverse)