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  • Could you elaborate on this angle? I’m not very well versed in the rights of companies operating in the EU, but I’m unsure “freedom of speech” is one of them.

    I rather mean “political discourse”

    There was Twitter. Apart from advertising, the very good thing it brought was free access to information. But not only getting it, also sharing. So we knew about for example Arab Spring or Umbrella protests and more or less what is going on, before news decided to tell us and how to tell us

    Then came Musk, all in white, saying that moderation on Twitter is biased and he’s going to bring it more freedom of speech

    Some time passes and let’s say that now EU does ban X. What’s the next logical thing he’ll say?

    I think it might be something like “see? EU banned X because they didn’t like the truth. For the truth, come to me”. I’m afraid that banning would rather give him power and echo chamber, rather than fixing what is going on


  • I’m not against this angle. But IMO evangelization and conversions only really worked when backed by the state

    My approach is calmly keep using free platforms, keep degoogling, when sharing information, share the links from those free platforms, so it keeps pinging in general consciousness that these exist. So the next time everyone does suprised pikachu face to what extent our data is used against us, you don’t have to say “see? I told you”. They come to you asking how to do this, what are the limitations and realities of getting free etc

    But, of course, as with everything, diversity is a strength. Some of us should fight, some of us stay calm and keep going on
    I think


  • Maybe the solution is to put a restriction on business, news agencies, and government services from using it?

    But that opens another can of worms. A precedence for a governing body to say which platforms can be used for reaching your audience. I’m afraid the change will have to come from the bottom

    If anything, I’d phrase it “public service messaging has to operate on platforms which don’t require an account to read”. But that doesn’t solve the problem of general culture on the service




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    3 months ago

    The more I think about it, the less sense this graphic has

    1. If not per sq km, it should at least be per capita
      just checking on wikipedia, divided by area GB should have bar around twice high as Germany. 209k m^2 vs 357k m^2
    2. and what does it mean 1 datacenter in the first place?
      big as a city sprawling datacenter complex and a bunch of racks in the cellar both count as 1?