Action, reaction

December 5: The European Union fines X €120 million. First penalty ever under the Digital Services Act.
December 7: The owner of X calls for the EU to be abolished.

“I mean it. Not kidding.”

8million views. 194,000 likes. And counting.

This is not a regulatory dispute. This is the owner of the world’s town square, serving simultaneously as a senior US government official, calling for the dissolution of a 27-nation political union governing 450 million citizens and €17 trillion in combined GDP.

The sequence:
Fine issued. Ad account terminated. Abolition demanded.
Three moves. Forty-eight hours. The post-war European order now faces its most direct challenge from a private citizen since 1945.

What makes this different from every billionaire grievance before it:

He owns the platform.
He advises the American president.
He controls the satellites.
He builds the rockets.
He moves markets with single sentences.

The EU has no app store to threaten. No ad revenue to pull. No infrastructure leverage. Their only power was regulatory. And the man they fined just told 600 million monthly users their institution should cease to exist.
If Brussels escalates, they validate his narrative of overreach.If Brussels retreats, they signal regulatory capture.If Brussels ignores, they appear irrelevant.

There is no clean exit.
The question is no longer whether platforms are too powerful.
The question is whether anyone remains powerful enough to govern them.We are watching the collision between 20th century institutions and 21st century infrastructure in real time.

The tribunal has been dismissed by the defendant.

Sincerely,

Pele23

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