Also hopefully LinkedIn will get banned indeed, or have you already forgotten how Microsoft has been (at least theoretically) illegal for nearly a decade already in the EU, because they were (and most likely still are) complicit with the US government in violating human rights, and that is even before considering the monopoly issues ?
But the people repeating sickening corporate PR and marketing crap there making me nauseous. It's 100x more fake than Facebook. I really hate it.
If it'd be banned I could do without it because nobody would have it.
I really hate that kind of corporate evangelisation. If it didn't exist I wouldn't have to take part in it, that's all.
The company I work for is the same. We were one of the last to close our Russian offices when the war started. They say they're committed to LGBTIQ+ rights yet do huge business in Saudi and the rest of the middle east (and don't even display the rainbow banners on our site there). The C-Suite say they care about sustainability yet fly all over the world in private jets.
So that's why I'm a bit sour about that.
Nonsense. Of course Europeans value those things, but they're also mindful of the fact that such freedoms can be abused, sometimes with catastrophic consequences.
The clear-cut example I usually pull out - there's PLENTY more.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/31/23004339/uk-twitter-user-...
And he's AMERICAN.
In general, remember that villains almost always justify their action as necessary or just- only in movies their stated motive is obviously egoistical.
Yes, because no one except idiots will say "I am reactionary", and no one except idiots believe that "because I am reactionary" is a valid explanation of anything. Political categories are dumb, and most people aren't stupid enough to define themselves by them.
The citizens of the EU or Europe?
And hate speech is a serious crime, not sure why you believe otherwise. In many aspects, most EU countries have much freer speech than the US.
I personally don't considered hate speech to be worthy of criminalization, much less as a "serious" crime.
What I consider to be serious crime is censorship, though.
Jail them, fire them is a pretty common demand on the left and right.
And fo be fair not everyone can surveillance the whole Internet like the US do or can enforce local laws worldwide.
Things like like the CloudAct and FISA section 702.
Not to mention that free speech sounds good, but you still can get fired and lose your income and health insurance.
So it's free speech for people like Musk and many others self censor their posts.
Because society is more important than individuals.