The European Union has once again underlined its willingness to stand up to big technology companies after its executive arm, the European Commission, fined Elon Musk's social media platform X 120 million euros ($140 million) forbreaches of the bloc's digital regulations, known as the Digital Services Act.

欧盟再次强调其对抗科技巨头的决心。欧盟执行机构欧盟委员会以违反《数字服务法》为由，对埃隆·马斯克旗下的社交媒体平台X处以1.2亿欧元（约合1.4亿美元）罚款。

The 27-member bloc has had frequentrun-ins with several of the United States-based technology companies that dominate the digital landscape, over issues including market share and monopolies, but this particular case relates to noncompliance with rules on transparency about harmful or illegal content.

这个由27个成员国组成的集团，在市场份额和垄断等问题上，曾多次与主导数字领域的多家美国科技公司发生冲突，但此案涉及的是违反关于有害或非法内容透明度规则的行为。

The areas where the EU found shortcomings include excessive delays in providing information about advert placers, exposing X users to potentially misleading or false information, the placing of unnecessary barriers in the way of accessing public data, and blue tick accounts.

欧盟发现存在缺陷的领域包括：提供广告投放者信息时过度延迟、使X用户暴露于可能误导性或虚假信息中、在获取公共数据时设置不必要的障碍，以及蓝勾认证账户问题。

Under the company's former name of Twitter, a blue tick was a badge of verification of the account owner, and was particularly used by trusted or authoritative names and organizations.

在该公司原名Twitter时期，蓝色认证标记是账户所有者的身份验证徽章，尤其用于可信赖或权威的个人及机构。

Since the company was bought and rebranded by Musk in 2022, blue ticks have been available to anyone who pays, with no real effort made to verify the account holder, opening users up to the danger of misleading information.

自2022年该公司被马斯克收购并更名后，付费用户即可获得蓝标认证，且平台并未真正努力核实账户持有者身份，这使得用户面临被误导信息的风险。

A year ago, the European Federation of Journalists left X, saying the site "no longer serves the public interest at all, but the particular ideological and financial interests of its owner and his political allies", adding that it had become "the preferredvector for conspiracy theories, racism, far-right ideas and misogynistic rhetoric".

一年前，欧洲记者联合会宣布退出X平台，称该网站“已完全背离公共利益，沦为其所有者及其政治盟友谋取特定意识形态和经济利益的工具”，并指出该平台已成为“阴谋论、种族主义、极右翼思想和厌女言论的首选传播载体”。

Musk, who was born in South Africa and became a United States citizen in 2002, has previously used his own blue tick account to speak in support of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany party, pay legal costs for other far-right activists, post statements such as "civil war in Britain is inevitable, just a question of when", and reshare images combining the EU flag with that of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party.

马斯克出生于南非，2002年入籍美国。他曾利用自己的蓝标认证账号公开支持德国极右翼政党“德国选择党”，为其他极右翼活动人士支付法律费用，发布诸如“英国内战不可避免，只是时间问题”等言论，并转发将欧盟旗帜与希特勒纳粹党徽拼接的图片。

He was a close associate of US President Donald Trump, and several of Trump's inner circle joined him in his criticism of the commission's actions. Even before the ruling had been announced, US Vice-President JD Vance said X was being fined "for not engaging in censorship…The EU should be supporting free speech not attacking American companies over garbage".

他是美国总统唐纳德·特朗普的亲密盟友，特朗普的几位核心幕僚也加入了他的行列，共同批评该委员会的行动。在裁决宣布之前，美国副总统詹姆斯·戴维·万斯就表示，X平台被罚款是因为“拒绝参与审查制度……欧盟应该支持言论自由，而不是因无谓之事攻击美国企业”。

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio likened the fine to an attack by foreign government on the American people.

美国国务卿马可·卢比奥将这笔罚款比作外国政府对美国人民的攻击。

"The days of censoring Americans online are over," he added.

他补充道：“审查美国人上网的日子已经一去不复返了。”

But commission spokesman Thomas Regnier denied there was anything personal about the ruling, saying it was "not targeting anyone, not targeting any company, not targeting anyjurisdictions based on their color or their country of origin, absolutely not. This is based on a process, democratic process".

但委员会发言人托马斯·雷尼尔否认该裁决存在任何个人因素，称其“绝非针对任何个人、任何公司或任何司法管辖区，更非基于其肤色或原籍国。这完全基于民主程序的运作”。

breach

v./briːtʃ/

违反

jurisdiction

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管辖范围

run-ins

n./ˈrʌn.ɪn/

冲突

vector

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载体；传播媒介