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[โ€“] HowRu68@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

I get your criticism, but the question how much Musk is using his ownership of the platform to positively discriminate his posts against other posts, is more complicated to prove and also i am not sure if there is legal standards yet, to address these issues.

First of all thaks for your reply.

To make sure we are on the same page, I want to underscore that it wasn't criticism. Like I said, it was a suggestion and also I applaud the initiative. I just want to give extra input to the initiative.

So getting back to your points, I fully agree that one must tread very carefully when limiting opinions and freedom in all its forms. Your concerns are valid imo.

That's why we are talking about the acts of a certain person and why I mentioned calling for an investigation. It's up to the democratic platforms to decide what happens. As a citizen I don't have to come up with a legal solution, but I do feel thr need to express my preoccupation with certain actors and their abuse of power.

Also, there is already a law in place to limit "x" formerly twitter, it's the Digital Services Act.

I believe the leaders are making steps, but yes it's been quite slow And it's unphantobale to me that officials still use an X account. Many are thankfully moving their accounts to mastodon and the likes, I've heard.

This trolling situation , if you can call it that, seems have to exploded, and has become more urgent lately. This has pushed the "x-case " higher up on the agenda, so I hope our leaders will come up fast with a good plan.