Irish and EU regulators aggressively “censored” social media coverage of Ireland’s 2024 general election and the recent presidential election, a panel of US politicians has claimed in a report.
The report by the staff on the judiciary committee of the Republican-controlled US Congress alleges “harassment” against tech groups to undermine conservative and populist parties.
Aw did those widdle kajillion dollar companies get hawassy-wassed?
How is a company a victim. It’s not a people
In the US it legally kinda is, which is fucked up.
Yet they are somehow able to own other “people” which is odd.
Yes, unfortunately that is true, except that these “legal entities” cannot be held liable for their crimes in the same way as humans. Therefore, the people who control these companies cannot be held liable for their crimes.
This is a legal trick that illustrates that the law has nothing to do with justice, while ensuring that billionaires are “legally” above the law that applies to everyone who is not a billionaire.
They are the worst kind of people too, they get the rights of an individual and can be evil but since there’s not a single human to blame they get to go on being evil without consequences like jail time or execution just pay a few dollars here and there to “make amends”
Even worse, they’re legally required to be evil, when being evil is in the shareholders’ best interests. This system is completely broken…
IDK why people simply don’t use European platforms. It takes 2 minutes to create an account. This problem is so stupid. If people use the „tech giants“ less, it fades away on its own, without any need for big regulatory battles. There are politicians writing books about „digital feudalism“ as if everyone didn’t have the choice to open an account on a different platform in 2 minutes. Come on.
Overall because while opening a new account on a non-US Tech giant is that simple they have fewer people so you risk losing content you may enjoy.
I can speak from experience in the reason I am still on YouTube & Twitch instead of full transition to is simply because content creators I enjoy are only on those respective platforms.
You don’t have to be on a single site. Keep using old, but copy post and interact with others too. This allows new sites to grow, while not losing benefits. It’s not a marriage.
But at the same time makes one go “why am I even here.”
We can offer tips all we want but at the end of the day it’s the Silicon sites already with the communities already built, moving off them on your own would require building new communities and not everyone is interested in that
Literally just copy paste mechanically to the new site(s). When consuming, read and interact with the little content there is and once done go to big site. It’s just a few more taps/clicks.
If everyone agreed to move, there would be no problem (as long as the Fediverse can accomodate everyone).
There’s precedent. There was a myriad of social media sites Worldwide at some point. Then in a few years everyone “agreed” to move to Facebook. There are stories of how they aggressively took over markets, but at the end of the day I supposed they had the technically best site. And after over a decade of decay, people are still stuck.
They just have to open new accounts, not necessarily leave the old ones. Just copy post to multiple sites. This allows new sites to grow, while keeping benefits of old, with minimal extra effort.
Just copy post to multiple sites
that’s a lot of effort
Depends on the site, and the tools you use. I know, at least tangentially, there were tools for cross-posting between facebook, twitter, and whatever back when I volunteered with a convention. Surely there could be similar tools for non “tech giant” sites.
No? Form a habit
mofos cant tolerate one social media (tiktok) they dont control and try to give us shit?
They are and yippie it will get even worse. Buy European!
Buy?
No, it’s gonna get worse, but European.
No buy, not but. I’ve korrektet id.
No buy, not but. I’ve korrektet id.
If only the EU regulators were as bad as the US gov thinks they are
needs a link to an article, not just a picture
Here’s one! (Irish Times)
If only!
I don’t want my tax money to bail em out
OhFU is my most polite to them.
