Use the fine money to fund fact-checking and Mastodon instances.
I don’t think any penalties would be necessary, if all Publishers, big websites and popular influencers would simply stop automatically pushing their news to twitter. In most cases this is just an integration someone put in 5 years ago that notifies twitter about new blog articles, and everyone forgot that ot still exist.
This way the value for platform users would decrease, and with it the advertising revenue Twitter could expect from companies.
But then it just be full of fake news and notging.is there to stop it…
On that note they should also finally stop using it. If every politician, institution and public broadcaster would stop using Twitter and start using mastodon it would easily gain enough momentum to replace it as the default platform in Europe.
That could set up a legal confrontation with wide-ranging ramifications. If Mr. Musk refuses to comply with E.U. orders to change his service, it may result in a standoff over how to get X to comply.
Complete ban?
1 Billion USD… thats [checks the internet] less than 1 % of his net worth… JFC how is that fucktard so rich?
He got so rich thanks to corporate welfare. For more than a decade he has been selling far fetched sci-fi ideas intended to save the future of humanity and received billions that fueled marketing campaigns which pumped market value of his companies like it was a meme shitcoin.
Based on his promises to deliver a mars colony by 2018, full self driving cars by “next year” since 2015, retarded ideas of robot axis and busses, impossible hyper loops, household robots and other brain farts he can’t deliver.
Arrest him and set bail at 50% his worth.
So there’s this thing called the finance industry. They’re basically smiling nervously, standing in front of this giant balloon, saying the like “don’t look over here!” And “it’s not going to burst, we promise”.
Let’s look in on one of them know…
“…then you pay some stupid goon to completely screw the economy, they get lynched and you walk off Scott free. It was going to crash when that whole neo colonialism schtick would inevitably fail anyway. This will accelerate the crash, so people won’t notice even.”
“Yes, I’d like to sniff more cocaine off an orphan femur. How did you know?”
I hope they hit them hard
