Former teen star and Donald Trump fan, Scott Baio, slammed the European Union's warning to Elon Musk ahead of the SpaceX chief's chat with the former president.
Musk, who owns X (formerly Twitter), interviewed Trump on Monday night in a two-hour audio conversation on the social media platform's Spaces feature.
During the discussion, which was hampered by technical issues, the pair spoke on a range of topics from Vice President Kamala Harris' looks to Project 2025.
Before the event went live, the European Union issued a warning to Musk not to spread disinformation during the event.
The EU's commissioner for internal market, Thierry Breton, posted a letter to Musk on Monday in the lead-up to the tech mogul's interview with Trump.
He asked Musk to ensure measures were in place to stop "the amplification of harmful content." Breton cited the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA) pointing out that the platform and the businessman had a legal obligation to the regulation.
Baio, a long-time Trump supporter, shared his thoughts on Breton's letter by reposting the X account 'Wake Up America.' It had posted about the EU's demand and asked its followers for their reaction.
"I'd say this could be seen as American election interference!" wrote the actor on X.
The EU commissioner said he issued the warning because the content of the Spaces event was "accessible to EU users and being amplified also in our jurisdiction, we cannot exclude potential spillovers in the EU."
Breton warned that should Musk and X breach the DSA in the EU jurisdiction, it could lead to action taken against the tech mogul and his social media company, by making "full use of our toolbox, including by adopting interim measures, should it be warranted to protect EU citizens from serious harm."
Musk reacted to Breton's letter by sharing a meme from the film Tropic Thunder, reading: "Take a big step back and literally, f*** your own face!"
He later addressed the warning with Trump during their conversation.
"There's a lot of attempts to do censorship and to force censorship, even on Americans from other countries. What do you think about that?" he asked the former president.
Trump responded by speaking about the U.S and its trade deficit with the EU, saying the latter was taking "great advantage" of the U.S.
It's not the first time the EU and Musk have sparred over X and its content and have regularly done so since he bought the platform in October 2022.
Musk had said at the time of the purchase that the platform would be a "digital town square" that "needs to be transformed as a private company." Musk also said that "free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy."
Breton told the Financial Times that Musk needed a "reality check" if he thought the answer to curb hate speech and misinformation was to have less moderation on the platform. "Be it cars or social media, any company operating in Europe needs to comply with our rules—regardless of their shareholding," Breton wrote at the time. "Mr. Musk knows this well. He is familiar with European rules on automotive, and will quickly adapt to the Digital Services Act."
Baio rose to fame in the late 1970s playing Charles "Chachi" Arcola in the legendary sitcom Happy Days which also starred Ron Howard and Henry Winkler.
His other acting credits include Charles in Charge, Arrested Development and the upcoming film, God's Not Dead: In God We Trust.
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