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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Guess Elon can't use JSON anymore

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Can you imagine the chaos if X had to quit using JSON?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Maybe get off of Twitter and create accounts for any EU politician on a self-hosted micro-blogging service?

[–] [email protected] -5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

Elon Musk, unlike other tech bosses, "is not able to recognize good and evil,” a European Union top official said Wednesday.

If the EU's regulatory bodies want to censor speech in the EU, if they want to hide a post on Twitter so that European viewers cannot see it, feel that Europeans cannot handle seeing some content, that's one thing.

But I am far less sanguine about them censoring political speech where it involves communication between Americans.

If the EU wants to try to leverage its market position to control communication and political speech between Americans, a role that I do not think is appropriate at all for the EU executive, then I start to have some very serious questions. We have a tradition that the government does not censor speech, and if the US government does not censor speech, I am even less willing to accept the idea that a government that I do not elect should be censoring speech here. I certainly do not feel that the EU executive should act as arbiter of good and evil in the United States.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Christ on a bike, most people already think Americans are ignorant, ill-informed dimwits with incredibly poor reading comprehension, there was no need to confirm it with this comment mate 😂

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Boiled down and spoon fed: we, in Europe, don't want an american messing with our politics.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The US really needs to start including the paradox of tolerance in the school curriculum to prevent these ridiculous takes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I agree, in addition what we need is a culture that values learning, education and knowledge. It's sad how some people here don't take school seriously.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't understand. This doesn't have anything to do with the US. People in Europe use Twitter and they see and post content.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It impacts people in the US so far as people in the US use Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Well, then Twitter should just stop operating in Europe, no?

Win-Win!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Given Elon Musk's recent meeting with Nigel Farage. it's obvious that Elon Musk is willing to interfere with politics in any country, not just the US. We must stop Musk’s evil agenda now because otherwise he will keep growing in power and wealth. I have a solution that will help with just a few minutes of your time. We must boycott Twitter and Tesla. For Twitter if you have a social media account you can easily send a DM to your friends saying why it’s important to stop using Twitter. If you use Twitter yourself make a post saying you’ve moved on to Bluesky or whatever app you choose and that you won’t be using Twitter anymore (except perhaps to convince more people to leave).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Yes boycott all his companies! Also most important is to urge businesses, government and institutions to boycott his companies. This will have a bigger impact.