EU Commission's X account has been removed after the EU fined X for transparency failures at the tune $150,000,000. I hope someone at the EU is paying attention to X's behavior as well as our growing community here on the #fediverse .
euractiv.com/news/x-blocks-eu-…
X blocks EU Commission’s advertising account after €120 million fine
The move came after a weekend of online attacks on the EU by the social platform’s owner, Elon MuskAlice Bergoënd (Euractiv)
plan-A
in reply to Fireside Fedi • — (Proud Eskimo!) •Also, 150 million $ is peanuts for that vile guy, imagine they come here and make their rules..
Fireside Fedi
in reply to plan-A • • •$150 million is literally pennies to Musk. And yet he's still a baby about it instead of attempting to legally follow laws. So it makes it even funnier imo.
As for staying away from here, it's an open protocol. As much as I dislike some folks, I still think they should have an open protocol to run their own things. I'll ignore them of course, but they should have the right to exist on the internet just as anyone else.
Right now Musk, and the other billionaires buying up the means of communication, gain all of their power by all of the control. AP and ATProto dwindle that power.
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