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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's actually not GDPR the EU is threatening Twitter with.  It's a new Digital Services Act, which goes way beyond privacy issues, but which the EU hope will have the same reach, so they in fact control key aspects of the internet.
	
	"The warning from Brussels came in a video call between Musk and Thierry Breton, the EU’s commissioner in charge of implementing the bloc’s digital rules, according to people with knowledge of the conversation.

Breton told Musk that Twitter must adhere to a checklist of rules, including ditching an “arbitrary” approach to reinstating banned users, pursuing disinformation “aggressively” and agreeing to an “extensive independent audit” of the platform by next year.

Musk was warned that unless he stuck to those rules Twitter risked infringing the EU’s new Digital Services Act, a new law that sets the global standard for how Big Tech must police content on the internet. Breton reiterated Twitter could face a Europe-wide ban or fines of up to 6 per cent of global turnover if it breached the law."

https://www.ft.com/content/a07ca1ae-9f9a-46ee-9457-27bb30e18ed2
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I find that super disturbing because the whole "disinformation" thing is a way to excise undesirable information.  I mean who would even decide what disinformation is or isn't? It's censorship.[/quote]

^ This is how the right wing tries to blur the lines between fact and fiction.

The US Capitol was violently attacked because of disinformation.  People were killed because of disinformation.  Hundreds of thousands died unnecessarily because of COVID disinformation. School board members received messages threatening to murder them, rape their children and burn their homes down because of CRT disinformation.  The US is at its most divisive since the Civil War because of toxic, intentional disinformation.

And, you find it "super disturbing" only because you're made all that toxic disinformation and gaslighting a central part of your strategy.

I, and millions of Americans, are SICK of playing your games.  I agree with social media flagging disinformation for what it is.  That is not censorship.  That is you rightly being called out for your bullshit.[/quote]

Why do you even care? Do you think twitter is a good source of information? [/quote]

DP twitter is a great place to go looking for information. I regularly check to see why there’s a slowdown on a highway, what those sirens nearby are all about, to get first hand accounts of events as they’re happening. I thought everyone knew that. [/quote]

Sounds like really important stuff you are looking up! lol

Twitter is actually nice when it comes to watching videos contained in an article, but I just fail to see how moderating hateful and obnoxious people on an app is some kind of major issue. And the poster rambling on about nazis or white supremacy is just out of their mind. There are all sorts of people pushing hateful rhetoric on the net. 
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You're clueless.

When Hitler rose to power, Germans didn't just shrug it off and say "ah he's out of his mind."  Never underestimate how impressionable and gullible the average person is. Never underestimate how much people have normalized atrocious behavior.  History has demonstrated this over and over and over again.[/quote]

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