• @[email protected]
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    287 hours ago

    As much as I dislike Musk, expansion of the great firewall of Europe seems like a bad idea.

    • @BeatTakeshi
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      33 hours ago

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

    • @brucethemoose
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      4 hours ago

      +1

      They should discourage institutions from using it (and use government Mastadon instances of course). This is honestly long overdue.

    • @[email protected]
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      13 hours 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

      • @[email protected]
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        12 hours ago

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

    • Dragon Rider (drag)
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      44 hours 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

      • @[email protected]
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        44 hours 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.