@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 7 months agoPetition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europeban-x-in.eumessage-square52fedilinkarrow-up1175arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareJustinlinkfedilink41•7 months agochange.org isn’t going to do much, and the EU already has an ongoing lawsuit with Twitter regarding its disinformation promotion. https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_6709 It could be argued that the EU prosecutors should speed things up, though.
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilinkEnglish7•edit-27 months agoI am afraid they already did: Commission concludes that online social networking service of X should not be designated under the Digital Markets Act – (October 2024) Please see the comment by @[email protected], I am mistaken here. I would have loved to see the initiators to go the official way for the petition as I agree that change.org won’t change much. Here we go: https://commission.europa.eu/get-involved/engage-eu-policymaking/petition-eu_en
minus-squareℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝linkfedilinkEnglish4•7 months agoThe DMA has no bearing on disinfo, it’s about access, like mandating a public API to federate with or banning self-preferencing with other products. The disinfo thing is regulated by the DSA - Digital Services Act, and it very much applies to Twitter.
change.org isn’t going to do much, and the EU already has an ongoing lawsuit with Twitter regarding its disinformation promotion.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_6709
It could be argued that the EU prosecutors should speed things up, though.
I am afraid they already did:
Commission concludes that online social networking service of X should not be designated under the Digital Markets Act – (October 2024)Please see the comment by @[email protected], I am mistaken here.I would have loved to see the initiators to go the official way for the petition as I agree that change.org won’t change much. Here we go: https://commission.europa.eu/get-involved/engage-eu-policymaking/petition-eu_en
The DMA has no bearing on disinfo, it’s about access, like mandating a public API to federate with or banning self-preferencing with other products.
The disinfo thing is regulated by the DSA - Digital Services Act, and it very much applies to Twitter.