Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe

RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  +1

  They should discourage institutions from using it (and use government Mastadon instances of course).

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• dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  They only need to expand it a little bit. Add a rule against Nazi websites, and enforce it. That’s not restrictive very much at all. Drag has gone drag’s entire life without relying on Nazi sites

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  • MajorHavoc@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lol. That’s true. I suspect that Xitter doesn’t have the staff or engineering talent left to pivot to enforce any new rules internally. It should be possible to catch them in a constant automated ban without hitting anything worthwhile.

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    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      To operate there they would have to hire the staff back then, or not do so. That said, usually intent is all that matters, so if something gets through, so long as you showed efforts to prevent it and remove it in a reasonable manner, they would be fine.

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      • MajorHavoc@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Sure but an automated ban and manual review and removal could easily leave them blocked for more hours than not, each day.

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• BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yep they should keep fining him exponentially till he leaves (he obviously will never fall in line with EU rules)

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• jagged_circle@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Does the article say anything about censorship? Usually bans like this are financial. So X offices would close in the EU and bank accounts seized and they wouldn’t be allowed to conduct business (eg with advertisers) in the EEA

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  • RobotToaster@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It specifically cites Brazil as an example, that involved a complete block of the website.

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    • iii@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      More than that. The Brazil government made it illegal for it’s citizens to access the site, as well as the use of a VPN.

      I think it’s a swell idea, banning your citizens from reading information you decide is wrong.

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