BAN X in Europe - Europeans against Elon Musk - Petition to the European Commission
ban-x-in.eu
This petition introduces the campaign for the ban of Elon Musk's social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) in the European Union.
  • rustydrd@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    332·
    22 hours ago

    See it more like “preventing a website whose owner refuses to comply withEuropean law from operating in the EU”.

      • towerful@programming.devEnglish
        27·
        20 hours ago

        And it’s fine to continue to operate in the US.
        But if it doesn’t abide by EU laws then it can’t operate in the EU.

        America doesn’t set the worlds laws

        • DrSteveBrule@mander.xyzEnglish
          2·
          6 hours ago

          I understand each government can have its own regulation about what websites should be accessible. I still don’t understand how Twitter operates in the EU. It’s a part of the world wide web. My understanding of how the internet works is that users reach out to the server, which in twitters case is in the US

        • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
          24·
          11 hours ago

          In practice, we could sever the connection between EU internet and the rest of the internet.

          Maybe whitelist a set of ideas that are allowed to pass through the great eu firewall.

          • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            3·
            10 hours ago

            Or maybe, just maybe, fine companies that commit criminal acts.

            There really is a fine line between turning into an authoritarian regime and doing basic police work, right?

        • DrSteveBrule@mander.xyzEnglish
          3·
          6 hours ago

          I still don’t understand how Twitter operates in other countries. It’s accessible because it’s a part of the world wide web. When people use Twitter are they not reaching out to the servers located in America?

          • jwt@programming.devEnglish
            21·
            3 hours ago

            They’re not accessible anymore from a jurisdiction if said jurisdiction which rules they are violating decides to change their networking policies. And because twitter likes to be accessible, twitter decided to comply with the rules eventually. You seem intentionally obtuse btw.

            • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
              2·
              53 minutes ago

              Some thoughts: (1) networks don’t necessarily run according to judicial borders.
              (2) you also have to penalize the use of rerouting tools, which Brazil seems to have done.
              (3) it became incorrect to refer to it as “world wide web”

        • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
          3·
          8 hours ago

          Apparently, it works by fining users that visit the site. See chapter “Blocking”.

          How nice, a government that puts criminal penalties on it’s citizens reading the (according to them) wrong things. Banning technologies like VPNs.