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

submitted 1 day ago by FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Here quite a few of the popular social media are banned. They're still popular but now every schoolkid, housewife and grandpa knows what a VPN is. Every time I hear such news, I am afraid of crackdowns on censorship evasion in those places too...

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Does the article say anything about censorship? Usually bans like this are financial. So X offices would close in the EU and bank accounts seized and they wouldn't be allowed to conduct business (eg with advertisers) in the EEA

[–] EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

That's just my association with the word "ban" - blocking, because that's what I usually experienced.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 46 minutes ago

Yeah that's not how laws usually work. Most legislation can't censor (except some very oppressive countries), so ban usually means financial