Pressure mounts on EU to use legal weapons against Musk’s interference
European Commission says it will study whether X gives unfair boost to far right in German election.
What is it to study? He's already said that he supports the nazis, and it is clear that he uses his twitter as his personal billboard.
There's nothing else to consider. Twitter should be banned from Europe until the nazi controlling it loses its control over it (hopefully in a pemanent way).
Right, but what in what you've said is illegal?
Nothing. IF his personal billboard was used to post kitten gifs.
But since his personal billboard is used to promote nazism during an election and is big enough to be able to influence the results of the elections by simply filtering that people can see on it to be what he wants, I'd say that he is interfering in a democratic election, which is a crime in democratic countries.
Foreign election interference is generally illegal. Which is why it happens in back channels and under the table. He has openly declared his intent to do so though. That justifies blocking X and any source of funding Musk can bring into those countries. Hell it justifies an interpol warrant.
Then make it legal
I think this is the right question. If they can show something he has done is illegal then take it to court. I can't stand the guy and hope they can nail him if he's broken the law.
There is a separate issue here which is whether regulations need to change because it's not appropriate to have media in the hands of individuals or big corporations. Yet this has been acceptable to politicians when it was Rupert Murdoch, or Silvio Berlusconi or various other media barons - why is Musk any different? Politicians have spent decades cosying up to such media barons and letting them have power over democracies.
The whole system needs to be changed - this is not just about one billionaire, it's all of them and their use of the media to control the public discourse.
Hit him on both fronts: Block X.com IP ranges and issue an international warrant for foreign election interference.
Why him? He represents the US government. Sanctions the yanks and kick them out of rammstein. Neocolonialist fucks.
It's Ramstein. And people are really fucking scared to upset the de facto rulers of NATO since the Russian invasion, as ironic as that might be considering Trump's connections and resulting stance on NATO allies.
Honestly, while I don't mind legal proceedings against Elon, the best thing the EU or any European government could do would be to start using alternatives to Twitter.
If they'd spin up their own mastodon instance and politicians, institutions and parties would start exclusively posting their statements there, then journalists would have to follow them and news organisations would also start linking those instead.
Twitter isn't as big here anyways, but doing that could imo make it even less so.
European commission Mastodon:
This would be a reason for me to start using Mastodon. I currently don't, and never used Twitter, because the value i got wasn't worth the pain. Mastodon looks like it would be less pain, but there isn't any real value drawing me in. If my country or province spun up instances with verified accounts and media releases, I'd be very interested. If they made their own crappy app, thanks, I'll pass.
Can I ask them how they negotiated with Pfizer to buy those vaccines?
If they’d spin up their own mastodon instance
It's slowly becoming a thing yes.
Yeah the police in Norway used to post all their ops messages on twitter. But now has a self developed platform they use.
It's probably going to go that way for a lot of stuff.
They shouldn't need to be pressured to stop him from engaging in election interference.
Block Tesla sales and Twitter. Fuck this putrid cunt.
Simple block x , its better for everyone
Block all of Musk's companies.
He's clearly a villain set on world domination.
What the fuck are we even doing as a SPECIES?
Please do it before it’s too late
Heck, use the illegal weapons on him too while we're at it.
I can't believe you've said that! No, no, don't stop. I just needed to act shocked and appalled.
The EU needs to wake up to the fact that its in a stage prepatory to war. They're under attack by a wave of fascists, Russian army on the east, and Politicians and Corporate Syndicates from America and within their own borders.
The entire State of Russia, Elon Musk's Megalomaniasphere, MAGA, Hungary's Fidesz, Germany'd AFD, France's RN. We're essentially in a plot similar to the tom clancy's Sum of all fears book, where a bunch of Fascists are trying to collectively take over the world.
Its a little conspiracy theorist-y, but some are suggesting the International Democracy Union is one angle of this plot.
Honestly at this point might be in everyone's best interest to consider the illegal weapons as well
Or, alternate plan, find some handsome italian lads who know how to use a gun.
they need to do what france did to durov. after the arrest, telegram did a major shift on content moderation. they need to make actual law enforcement instead of just saying things. but, eh, it's elon musk, i bet they dont have balls to stand against world richest dickhead.
Did he get out of France already?
This is their petition
See even governments are doing something about it, it's about time you all stop upvoting musk news
John Perry Barlow was right with his declaration of the independence of cyberspace.
Governments of the world, get out of the Internet.
ancaps, get out of Europe
What good does that do as long as the internet is run by private corporations?