Comment by sva_

> The third thing the EU penalized X for is not giving researchers better access to public data. This enforcement is not about the DSA’s more famous and controversial requirement for platforms to hand over internal data. It’s just about information that was already publicly available on X’s site and app.

The EU commission has no right to let researchers perform studies on users of the platform without the explicit consent of each user whose content is included in the study, so kudos for upholding their rights. There is also precedent that this 'research' loophole has in the past been abused to massively scrape data off Twitter.

Additionally, this whole thing isn't just about X, but also about "N"GOs like "Hat aid" who sue individual citizens for stating their opinion on the internet.