It was unfortunate timing, but Musk made his offer on the 14th of April, this instance was launched on the 25th

I admire your faith in it but there's no way in hell two different branches of the Commission were able to coordinate a deployment, ask for the budget, make all the preparations on anything in two weeks

I would be shocked if it took them less than 6-8 months to organize it all

The EU are useless bureaucrats that can never and will never organise anything without spending years debating it and billions implementing it.

The disguting EU are attacking Musk by deciding to implement this; funding, coordinating, building and launching this in 11 days. Oh and a personal f'you to google as they launched a youtube clone too...

I admire people who can hold opposing opinions at the same time, but lets face it these both cant be true.

I propse a more likely explanation, which is actually supportive of the Musk agenda (oh how inconvenient). Seeing Trump banned from Twitter made politicians realise they shouldnt be all in on the whims of "content moderators" at a corporation in another country.

Or you could just read about the programme that produced it ... https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/informatics/open-sourc...

> Seeing Trump banned from Twitter made politicians realise they shouldnt be all in on the whims of "content moderators" at a corporation in another country.

Interesting point. Which I would agree with you, but I tend to see the EU parliament pretty well aligned with democrats in EU and per consequence with Twitter moderation practices. I agree however with others here that probably in mastodon the radicalization should actually increase. I'm curious (not cheerleading) to see how Musk will tackle the moderation issue.

So… aren’t the first two paragraphs of your comment mutually exclusive? As in, given the timeline, either the EU are attacking Musk but can move pretty fast, or this has nothing to do with Musk?

I admire people who can hold opposing opinions at the same time, but lets face it these both cant be true.

This timeline isn't really accurate. Elon started this on January 31, 2022[1], when he started to buy twitter shares batches daily.

https://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/elon-must-twitter...

You might not like it, but it's not unfounded. I'm glad EU steers away from Musk's endeavours. It seems like he would make an excellent scam artist.

why its not unfounded? Reading his comments, looks like he will focus on having plurality on the moderation team and he will fight the bots and anonymous accounts which are quite noisy and disturbance to the real discussion. Twitter has potential to become the most important communication channel in the World, and I'm sure Musk will be the person leading it to this direction.

Because he has proven his comments don't mean anything.

> Twitter has potential to become the most important communication channel in the World

Isn't it already?

Is it? It has few 100s of millions of users, most of them in US - it's insignificant anywhere else. Older people don't know what it is, and younger people don't care about it - there's not enough dancing videos on it I guess.

Almost all people in politics use it. It's mostly 1 way traffic, but yes, politicians outside US use Twitter a lot.

Outside the US? Maybe in addition to other media. Definitely not as their primary channel. They would be completely unknown if they did so.

Musk is a problem sure but that's nothing compared to Christian nationalists taking over America.

What if they make it illegal to mention homosexuality or abortion on Twitter?