All social media needs fair and equal regulation. FB ads have become important campaigning means for candidates but I know several examples of access to these being pulled arbitrarily without due process or appeal.
There’s a similar argument for blocking all the social media sites. The ‘meta-verse’ is following X, and there’s nothing to say this lovely platform won’t crumble under a tidal wave of displaced loons.
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Boycott:
- Tesla,
- X (Twitter),
- Amazon,
- Facebook,
- Meta,
- Whatsapp, => use SIGNAL instead (encrypted) !
- Instagram,
- Microsoft,
- Google,
- YouTube,
- Israel
and the list goes on! B O Y C O T T !
America was built on the Petrodollar & is now being shifted into fascism by the silicon dollar.
That all pervading influence undermines the whole of Europe.
This is because tomorrow's new standard is the Data dollar.
Your data is the currency they need to feed the impossibly rich who want it all
Now
When individuals become sovereign through the amassing of obscene wealth and unmitigated authority there is very little contemporary society can do. We have been building this world, that of the trillionaire emperor, for generations, Musk is the culmination of pure refined capitalism, incarnate.
We also need a war footing funding and organisation, to identify Russian dictatorial sponsored bots. We need to be muscular in taking them down, and to prosecute individuals pushing Putin State propaganda, which is detrimental to democracy & freedom!
Time to use alternative propaganda to counter Musk and his bot riddled platform. Get street artists around the world working to challenge the X rot. Coasters in coffee bars and hamburger joints. Start thinking outside the square people. We are at war now and have to fight back.
Haven't used it for months, but went to X yesterday looking for something specific and stumbled on a post that included a man stood in front of a swastika flag making a Nazi salute. Been up for 4 days. They're not even pretending to moderate this stuff any more.
It won't just be elections in other countries. It'll be used to further Trump's expansionist ambitions in Mexico, Panama, etc. He never jokes, just tests the water, so assume intent. Bannon is side-lined: Cambridge Analytica was kindergarten level compared to what X & Meta can achieve for him.
No need to discuss do it - do it now - free speech doesnt mean spreading lies - they wouldnt hesitate to close down a platform that was against their interests- the centre right and left need to pull gloves off and fight hard - once its gone its gone. Also mainstream politics needs to get shit done
Donald Trump doesn't even use X as his main channel, he uses Truthsocial. So why are the 'leaders of the free world' still on X? Bluesky is right here for them.
No. Right now we can easily see what fascists are talking about. If we ban it they will get their lies somewhere else (Daily Heil) and they will discuss things in private (telegram).
X allows them a platform to tell on themselves.
Without doubt this needs to happen. In addition, we should all boycott American goods and services. With Trump in power, we in Europe, are the adults in the room and need to step up, isolate the nutters across the pond and make him look the grifting idiot crook that he really is.
X can't ignore an EU🇪🇺 blockage because many users would migrate to other platforms, eventually singeling out a new dominant platform (e.g. Bluesky), undermining X's market dominance.
The main risk is that Musk will block Starlink in Ukraine🇺🇦. A backup for this is urgently needed---in any case.
The last I heard, France had made it a treasonable offence for foreign nationals to use social media to dishonestly try to influence elections. So the sort of activity Musk has been doing recently would result in jail sentences, mega-fines, and the shutdown of twitter if he tried it here.
Yeah, no chance of that happening in the U.S. currently, but the rest of the world should ban the spread of the non woke mind virus #PresidentMusk is attempting to spread.
Hell yes! I did see somewhere a “ let’s all leave X day” in July? I left as soon as the Tangerine tyrant appointed him. We need more big names disowning X and stating they’re moving to Bluesky.
I'd build a robust evidence base of how it's used to influence elections and radicalise people and let that go viral.
Encourage major organisations/companies and governments to pretty much withdraw, making it worthless.
Make its failure universally known
Make it a financial laughing stock worldwide
I've been saying this for a while. Going back to Brexit, social media manipulated voters and since then, it's only got worse. When the President of the USA is amplifying lies, it needs to stop. I'm all for free speech but you have to be held accountable. X has become a cesspit for the far right.
Sad to say it but yes.
It's been hijacked, and it's sole purpose now is to spread lies and influence global politics.
Something would just replace it though.
Yes. Musk and his rotten platform are clearly a danger to other countries. X is now nothing more than a disinformation and propaganda machine, and it should be banned.
Some people would, but how many X users are tech-savvy enough - or even bothered enough - to start setting up VPNs or using proxies? Most would be angry for a day, and then go back to admiring their collection of Third Reich action figures, or whatever it is they do.
I would normally say censorship is a drastic and unfortunate step to need to take but X is being turned into something very malignant so yes we should.
He was a private citizen with a lot of money. We might not like that but it's not really any different from what Murdoch has done for 50 years.
But now he is *formally* an agent of the US government. That demands diplomatic retaliation from European governments - against Musk and the US gov, not X.
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I don't know the answer, but is X materially any different?
Unless there is proper moderation and fact checks, X is only a propaganda tool.
It's extreme, heavily manipulated, utterly untrustworthy and highly dangerous.
No discussion needed.
He should be shut down and shut out. He's already stated that he supports the AfD in Germany.
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Boycott:
- Tesla,
- X (Twitter),
- Amazon,
- Facebook,
- Meta,
- Whatsapp, => use SIGNAL instead (encrypted) !
- Instagram,
- Microsoft,
- Google,
- YouTube,
- Israel
and the list goes on! B O Y C O T T !
That all pervading influence undermines the whole of Europe.
This is because tomorrow's new standard is the Data dollar.
Your data is the currency they need to feed the impossibly rich who want it all
Now
Musk is deeply involved with a hostile government.
So bye bye.
Though I'm more concerned about Palantir, the NHS, and Peter Thiel.
An immediate way to stop them before it's too late is to
ban X in Europe.
Musk is always crying censorship, so may as well do it, silence him now.
There is no obvious reason not to shut it down in truly democratic countries and plenty of reasons to go ahead and do it!
It infuriates and baffles me.
X allows them a platform to tell on themselves.
It worked.💪
The EU🇪🇺 must block X, and fast.
The main risk is that Musk will block Starlink in Ukraine🇺🇦. A backup for this is urgently needed---in any case.
This is a Death Cult and needs treating like such
Ban it, but I fear it’s already too late
Encourage major organisations/companies and governments to pretty much withdraw, making it worthless.
Make its failure universally known
Make it a financial laughing stock worldwide
X should be banned. It isn't Twitter, Twitter is dead. X is basically a Cambridge Analytica / Tufton St type operation.
https://bsky.app/profile/twitterexodus.org/post/3lgil4gvsp224
Make it go bankrupt.
It's been hijacked, and it's sole purpose now is to spread lies and influence global politics.
Something would just replace it though.
But the usage of by serious institutions as a major platform needs to be diluted over time.
No discussion required.
But faking an outage to see the response could be something GCHQ should heavily consider.
The majority of people who would bother are down the rabbit hole anyway, most normal people will just go somewhere else.
But now he is *formally* an agent of the US government. That demands diplomatic retaliation from European governments - against Musk and the US gov, not X.
Don’t we have safeguards about foreign interference?
Esp those that don’t share our values (like MAGA!)