Can we get rid of twitter already?
this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2025
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If only they wanted to do it as bad as they want to pass chat control. The western organizations are such a fucking joke.
Please, do it.
Just do it. Stop yapping, start doing. The hemming and hawing and trying to be proper about this shit is infuriating. They don’t play by the rules so, fuck it - pull a Brazil and yank the rug out. It worked.
The government is allowed to mess with cokes recipe because we don't want it to be too bad for people's health. I don't see why we shouldn't mess with algorithms to protect our personal and national health
Better to just block the site. That's less likely to degenerate into haggling and malicious compliance.
We do, but it's a lot more difficult to enforce. We can't just grab a tweet, open the bottle and check how much sugar is in there
Hmmm, maybe if that bottle of sugar is undermining democracy it shouldn't be allowed. A democracy needs to protect itself from itself
Democracy needs to protect free speech. Part of that is keeping the information "playground" equal and fair. Fighting disinformation and protecting access to the press is important for that.
A well informed population is vital to prevent the masses from being dragged along by some rich guy just buying a common social media platform
100%, that's always been the case since the printing press was invented, but at some point you need to know that hate speech isn't free speech
"free spend" is that a typo or a term I do not know?
That's free speech in USian, thanks to Citizens United.
Never heard of m
Definitely a typo, my bad
Thank you for clarifying! And yes, you're absolutely right. Freedom to speak for what you stand for doesn't mean you're free to speak like an #######.
Although I can see how some people find that confusing
Do it now
Lets use their playbook: The only way to protect the electoion in less than 2 months, is to block Twitter and Facebook in germany completely.
Let them go to the courts, I'm sure we can find a lawyer or 2 skilled enough to draw out the process for 6-8 weeks. After that, whatever, unblock them, pay some "sorry we were wrong" money.
Then we have 4 years to solve the problem in a more permanent way.
pay some “sorry we were wrong” money
1 Euro should suffice.
It's already too late and it will take them an eternity to do (if it actually goes through).
That's what you get for election interference.
Democracies have to start making laws that stop assholes like Musk from interfering in their domestic politics - including and up to imposing heavy fines, service shutdown and personal criminal liability. If a person is not a national and domiciled in that country they should have no right to influence that election through campaign contributions or any other assistance.
Musk and russia. Russia has been a far greater problem and is also behind many stupid musk takes.
Better shut off the complete platform. And issue an international arrest warrant for foreign poitical influence / election interference.
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