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Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe (ban-x-in.eu)

submitted 4 days ago by FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Zink@programming.dev 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That’s all well and good, and that’s currently my policy.

But that’s an entirely different discussion than whether banning a certain propaganda platform is worth doing and would cause the intended results.

[–] 13esq@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The first thought that comes to my mind is that the people in Twitter are just going to migrate to another social network. It won't be problem solved, it'll be problem moved.

The second thought I have is the amount of hate and comments full of misinformation on sites like Facebook. Should we ban Facebook too? And if so, where does it stop and who is it that gets to decide that a site is getting banned for "wrong think".

Personally, I believe this isn't so much a petition against X, but a petition against Musk, who I think wouldn't be absolutely gutted even if X went out of business. I think he bought it with the aim of derailing anyway.