• @bbbhltz@beehaw.org
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      262 years ago

      The fake news, the misinformation, the amplifiers, the conspiracies, etc… Losing Twitter would be a win. It would be wonderful to be able to crack down on some of the groups on things like Telegram and FB and WhatsApp. The blatant lies they spread. And lies about lies too.

      My wife is part of a group like this. And over the past week, as you can imagine, the channel is rife with bullshit. They have posted fake things, then deleted them and claimed they were hacked to explain why the post was made or deleted. And people were like, “oh yeah sure that makes sense”

      • Ben Matthews
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        32 years ago

        I think it would only be a win if euro-comm does the same for WhatsApp, otherwise the fakes just get less transparent. And maybe this is all part of authoritarian countries cutting the world off from european ideas, see my other comments.

  • Rentlar
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    732 years ago

    Perhaps Mr. Musk would be receptive to the following message:

    Hey Musk! You’re not a bitch like Zuckerberg right? Show the world the man that you are and pull out of the EU like you mean it! I dare you! You won’t if you got no balls!

    • Pleb
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      72 years ago

      Yeah Elmo, do it! You can show the whoel world how much more of a man you are! Do it!

        • Square Singer
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          2 years ago

          Hupf in Gatsch

          Und schlog’ a Wölln

          Oba tua mi do net quö’ln

          Hupf in Gatsch

          Und gib a Ruh

          Sonst schliess ich Dir die Augen zu

          So an Oamutschgal wie Dir schenk’ ich an Schülling

          Oda na I gib da zwa donn bist a Zwülling

          Wö aner allan konn doch net so deppert sein

          Hupf in Gatsch und grob di ein

    • bedrooms
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      At this point every SNS app can just boycott EU in protest of the e2ee ban, and that’d only make a better world.

  • @Foni@lemm.ee
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    432 years ago

    Facebook said the same thing a few years ago and here I am, waiting for them to go away

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky
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    322 years ago

    Clearly nothing shady at all when your company makes threats (empty or otherwise) that they’re gonna disappear from your country if you investigate them for incompliance.

    Nothing to see here, just move along. /s

  • nicetriangle
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    Yes please. This would further accelerate its fall from being considered the defacto internet town square.

    • @trollercoaster@feddit.de
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      It is the internet town square. Of a town run by the likes of Elon Musk. Badly neglected, crime taking place on the streets in broad daylight, hateful graffiti smeared all over the place, people taking shits right in the middle of town square, and nobody to clean it up nor stop the perpetrators, because the mayor has an odd liking for faeces, and occasionally likes to take a good old dump in the middle of town square, himself, too.

  • @philpo@feddit.de
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    242 years ago

    The thing is that it won’t save him from the current inquiry. Once the EU rules that he is in breach of the current legislation (which he clearly is) he owes them a shitload of money. Sure, he chose to not pay(he is mad enough to try). But that would later on make the Twitter penalties his personal problem.

    And that is painful even for a billionaire. No more skiing in the Swiss Alps, no more Saint Tropez in the summer, no Monaco. And none of his assets can ever return to the EU or EU friendly allies.

    That would probably make him even more mad.

    Which I like. A lot.

    • @Gamey@feddit.de
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      52 years ago

      Well, he reguses to pay tons of open bills for months so I wouldn’t even be especially surprised tbh!

      • @philpo@feddit.de
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        82 years ago

        Yeah, but it’s a bit different when big players like the EU are behind it. That’s a tad bit different to the numerous landlords and employees he fucked over.

        But don’t get me wrong, I am also sure that he won’t pay simply because he is so much his own ass that be thinks he is above everything.

        Which the EU Commission really hates and makes them go more after you .

        That could be a nice drama to watch.