• RobotToaster@mander.xyz
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    3 days ago

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

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

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      3 days ago

      +1

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

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      3 days 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

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      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

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        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.

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          To operate there they would have to hire the staff back then, or not do so. That said, usually intent is all that matters, so if something gets through, so long as you showed efforts to prevent it and remove it in a reasonable manner, they would be fine.