So more than half said it should continue to be allowed if it kept breaking the law? That sounds so very made up. Plus how do you survey “Europe” exactly?
Yes, it is unfortunately becoming increasingly clear that even in the EU, billionaires and their companies are above the law. The legal situation should be clear here and there should be consequences - but there apparently aren’t any.
Unfortunately, this applies not only to Twitter, but to most US tech giants in particular, to meta, for example. I have already stopped counting the massive violations of the GDPR that meta and others are constantly committing, because nothing happens anyway. If anything, the fines are so low that violating the law brings these companies far more revenue than it costs them.
So unfortunately, the same major issue that brought the US to the brink of a straight up dictatorship also applies in Europe: even the most blatant violations of the law have no serious consequences for the richest of the rich – and that is why billionaires are becoming more and more powerful.
The situation may be better in the EU for now than in the US, whose legal system obviously no longer even maintains the appearance of fairness, but even in the EU, the enforcement of the law is miles away from anything that could even remotely be called justice.
The reason seems to me to be the same as in the US: concentration of power in a tiny billionaire class that asserts its influence through corruption.
I think that if things continue like this, and I see no indicators that they will not, it will not be long before even the appearance of justice is abandoned in the EU as well.
Edit: Here is an example of how this is possible - it’s just plain old corruption, but in the highest ranks of our institutions: From Meta to the EU Parliament: Former chief lobbyist negotiates data protection (German article)
Aura Salla was Meta’s chief lobbyist in Brussels for many years. Her task: to convince politicians to weaken EU digital rules such as data protection in order to generate even higher profits with Facebook, WhatsApp, and other platforms.
If X fails to respond to the Commission’s fine, 70% of respondents were supportive of repercussions [3]. Among those, between 17-28% think that further fines should be given to X, between 23-29% believe X should be banned, and the largest segment - between 40-52% of those in favour of repercussions - believe that the Commission should fine and ban the social media service entirely from the EU [4].
Ban it, do it, we are not gonna cry!
Unfortunately, the other half of the people who don’t want it banned have all the political capital.
Shouldn’t they want it banned because it already broke the law? How many lines have to be crossed before anyone does anything?
Anarchism for the rich(law does not affect them), rugged police state for the poor,
I’m not clicking the link to read this but these sort of headlines are often a result of their survey intentionally wording things like this to spin the narrative. Anyone who does in fact want it banned immediately would still say yes to the question. I’d suspect there are many such folks across Europe.
I want it banned regardless :D
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I mean if they break the law there should be some consequences.
Tired of waiting for consequences that show no sign of happening as yet. Best thing to do until such things come to pass would be to boycott the platform.
i wish this was worldwide
I think all USA/Israel social media application must be banned.
What is a Israel sozial media application?
All USA social media indirectly product of Israel .
American ones it seems like. American politicians sure love Israel for some reason.
Good.
100% of this European want X banned without further ado.
Yesterdaythe moment the sink carrying cancer walked in.
It should’ve been banned long ago. It’s insanity that, it is not banned yet. There’s so much illegal content through Grok and so much* hatred on X.
I want it banned here too.
Ditch it.It will have 0 to none effect of EU. And Mr.NaciSalute won’t get broke.Mastodon is the way.
I think you are mistaken. It will have a huge positive impact on the EU.
Certainly not Lemmy Users. Lemmy users love that nazi shit with how much they repost it here.
