Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe

Ah change.org the platform best known for not changing anything ever.

Everyone who signed the petition should close their Twitter accounts. And write their newspapers that they would cancel their subscriptions if the articles quoted or embedded tweets. I didn't sign any petition, and I'm already doing it. Well, sort of. I didn't have any Twitter account ro close.

Ah, a change.org petition . I eagerly await the sweeping improvements to life abroad.

Op, if you want to submit a petition to the EU, you should use their portal https://www.europarl.europa.eu/petitions/en/home not change.org

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

Let's at least block the government agencies from using it in favor of open platforms and protocols to communicate with its citizens.

At least give me some good ole RSS in the backend, and they could host their own Mastodon instances that people can subscribe to from other public instances.

Corporate nationalist social media like "X" (American oligarchy) and TikTok (Chinese oligarchy) are a danger to the sovereignty and stability of the Western world.

Ew, that sounds bad. I would prefer "promote open twitter-like social media" instead of "ban X" (you can replace X with any other website/software, even FOSS one). No banning should be allowed in EU.

I don't like the idea of governments banning access to a website, unless its like CSAM.

I'm glad they at least name mastodon and not bluesky as an alternative.

Block? No.

Ask public law institutions to not use it. Maybe.

Petition calls to ban world hunger

Eh, BlueSky seems to be actually gaining some traction now, enough so that celebs and brands are jumping ship, so maybe just give it a few months and let it rot.

Petition calls to ban war

How about "if you don't like Musk, don't use X or buy a Tesla?"

I personally don't really like any billionaires at all, but I'm not going to get in to a hissy fit because someone uses Microsoft Windows or bought something from Amazon.

Why stop there, why not ban Elon all together?

Petition to ban all people who think differently from me

I also don't think banning anything is the way to go. Who don't want to use X doesn't have to - there is Reddit, Mastadon, BlueSky and others.

Here quite a few of the popular social media are banned. They're still popular but now every schoolkid, housewife and grandpa knows what a VPN is. Every time I hear such news, I am afraid of crackdowns on censorship evasion in those places too...

Why there are always petitions to ban something, not to create something, like eu based social network everyone can join and use for free ?

If someone told me "I don't like Musk, I'm going to stop using Twitter", I'd say "good for you". I think it's great when people stand up for their beliefs and put their money where their mouth is.

If someone told me "I don't like Musk, so you're not allowed to use Twitter", I'd tell them to go fuck themselves. It's none of their business whether they personally like what it is that I want to do as long as I'm not hurting anyone.

Inb4: I'm not a Twitter user and probably never will be, but I believe very strongly in the freedom of expression, even when that means I have to hear things that I don't like.

It kind of invalidates what the EU Committee is all about. This is just stupid, and calling for a ban in a free world is more concerning than X.

I think they should just force him to disclose his shitty algorithm

Edit: Third party, local moderators for social media should also be a standard requirement. No outsourcing of moderation.

Site doesn't load. I trust they're talking about banning it financially, not with a firewall, right?

Do it! Elon Musk needs to shut it.

European politicians use X and its an assets for their governments. I doubt they are going to do much about it.

Petition calls to ban hurt feelings

There's absolutely no sensible reason to even consider doing this.

In few years we have moved from nonsensical Musk worshipping to nonsensical Musk hating.