You mean to tell me Elon's little neo-Nazi shithole might not be properly moderating content to stay on the right side of hate speech laws? ...Yeah that's not surprising.
What's surprising is that the US does nothing about it
How is this surprising to you?
Half of the US votes for christian nationalist theological fascists that have already successfully banned everything to do with lgtbq people existing in many parts of the country, and about 1/3 of the US population believes in all or significant parts of the insanely hateful and delusional QAnon conspiracy universe.
You must not be American, or follow American domestic politics closely?
The Republicans control Congress which means the Democrats cannot pass any legislation, and are in fact bogged down fighting off insane nonsense to basically either somehow give more money to the already wealthy, or fighting off insane shit to take away even more basic rights for minorities.
Its basically illegal to get an abortion now in half the country.
And Trump has now multiple times just said he will be a dictator if he wins in 2024, and is currently leading in the polls.
Like, if you are European, can I fake marry your daughter or something to get the hell out of this collapsing basket case of a society?
You guessed it, I am not American.
Nor I have time to spend following the domestic politics of a country that was decadent when it was founded by terrorists (according to its own Constitution).
I am surprised still because this is 2023 and you are behaving literally medieval de facto instituting a new kind of feudalism gibing power to these people.
The easiest way to explain this to a non American is that Americans are highly selfish, vain, anti intellectual, ignorant and superficial compared to much of the rest of the world.
Hence me asking about getting out.
Years ago now I was telling my friends that QAnon was such a serious problem that it would endanger the country and even the rest of the world very seriously. I have a degree in Econ and another in Poli Sci, so I was able to explain in detail a worst case scenario.
Then Jan 6th happened, far exceeding my worst fears.
A week or so before one friend told me nah man nobody believes in QAnon before, old meme bro.
Then after Jan 6th they spent a year calling me hyperbolic for describing what Trump and other MAGA Republicans were doing as fascist.
I no longer speak with them, as in addition to being infuriatingly politically illiterate, they are generally insufferable people who bicker about each other constantly.
Anyway... yeah. We live in a cyberpunk dystopia over here, half corporate exploitation of everything material, half cruel, absurd and hypocritical hyper christian fundamentalism over our minds.
I'll let you onto a little secret about Europeans: we don't don't give half a shit about the US and their "politics".
You may well argue that we have your bases in our territory, NATO and your social networks influencing our lives, but I see that as our internal problem of still having to grow a proper pair, rather than an interesting consequence of whatever medieval situation you're brewing in there.
And you wish you were in a cyberpunk dystopia. You're in a boring one.
It's perfectly fine not to care about another country's politics, but WTF do you mean putting "politics" in scare quotes? You're just being condescending for the sake of being condescending, and you're doing it to someone who is pretty clearly trying to explain things in good faith. If you're not interested, just don't read it. It's not that hard.
My "politics" is because I don't think that any politically relevant (especially for the rest of the world) decision in the US is taken in or by the appointed institutions. And recent events, including the news we are commenting on here, are confirmation of this.
There’s nothing to be done about it. Legally there’s no such thing as “hate speech” in the US, and there won’t be unless we get around to changing the first amendment.
Time for that amendment to be ... amended.
But they're holy texts, you can't just change them!
Yeah I’m shocked.
Dont worry, even if Elon tanked the whole company by publicly telling its main customers, advertisers, to all go fuck themselves, its gonna be the new paypal with 100 trillion dollars in transactions!
Yes thats right, the company that can barely ever turn a profit, that just corporate public image suicided, and also fired nearly all its staff and now has an insanely toxic work environment that everyone competent is avoiding like the plague...
Fuck i cant even keep up the gimmick.
Elon and everything connected to him is so fucking fucked.
He's on the right side of the hate speech laws. The alt-right side.
In before Nazi childish tantrum
Earth will suffer because of this Blackmale!!
Blackmale
I die
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The social media platform X, formerly Twitter, is being investigated for allegedly breaking EU law on disinformation, illegal content and transparency, the European Commission has announced.
The decision to launch formal infringement proceedings against the company, owned by the US billionaire Elon Musk, comes weeks after X was asked to provide evidence of compliance with new laws designed to eliminate hate speech, racism and fake news from platforms in the EU.
Under the Digital Services Act, which came into force in August, a company can be fined 6% of its global income or be banned from operating across the EU if it is found to have breached the law.
In a statement, the European Commission said it had taken the decision to launch proceedings against X on the basis of its “preliminary investigation”, which allegedly concerned the “dissemination of illegal content in the context of Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel”.
The EU will investigate whether search on X boosts blue tick accounts and spreads content that users might mistake as from verified sources in the pre-Musk service.
Earlier this year, Facebook, TikTok and the tech companies Google and Microsoft signed up to a code of conduct laid out by the EU to prepare for the new laws in the DSA.
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Neat. Should have done earlier, but better late than never.
lets see if they actually do anything other than send letters and slap wrists.
Nooooo right now that he was about to bring big money to Italy to defend against immigrants/s
Good god, he looks like a bag of shit… I guess it tracks.
Don't obey his bullshit rebranding. That platform will forever be known as Muskspew.
The only people who care about the rebranding are those who used twitter in the first place.
It's a platform for celebrities and businesses to advertise, nothing more.
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