"“to insert… feedback and exert influence over product development.” If that’s an accurate portrayal of the situation, then it would be a good thing for Musk to cut it off, "
Why would this be a good thing? As someone who sometimes works with EU agencies in the normal course of my job the feedback mechanism is something along the lines "If you do this thing like this, you're likely going to breach that, please don't" and very very rarely they come up with "it might be better if you do it this other way". Compliance with the feedback is not mandatory. Disclaimer: completely different industry.
In which no one actually looks at the posts that were taken down, which were true and noteworthy. A couple being about that guy who claims to have invented email, but actually didn't.
Techdirt also wrote about him. I suppose Techdirt should also be be legally harassed into deleting all the posts about Shiva Ayyadurai.
"“to insert… feedback and exert influence over product development.” If that’s an accurate portrayal of the situation, then it would be a good thing for Musk to cut it off, " Why would this be a good thing? As someone who sometimes works with EU agencies in the normal course of my job the feedback mechanism is something along the lines "If you do this thing like this, you're likely going to breach that, please don't" and very very rarely they come up with "it might be better if you do it this other way". Compliance with the feedback is not mandatory. Disclaimer: completely different industry.
Re: no sympathy here
In which no one actually looks at the posts that were taken down, which were true and noteworthy. A couple being about that guy who claims to have invented email, but actually didn't.
Techdirt also wrote about him. I suppose Techdirt should also be be legally harassed into deleting all the posts about Shiva Ayyadurai.
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Post was written before the acquisition.
Wasn't there a storyline just like this in The Newsroom? Except even there they had more (circumstantial) evidence.