We should ban it for politicians. Why on earth would you use a for-profit foreign platform for official communication?

This was the moment where banning twitter turned from a good idea into a non negotiable measure we need to take asap.

I’d prefer tariffs on Twitter and Tesla in all EU nations until the Trump tariffs are removed --> income should be used to fund European social media and European car production

Can I answer: “Yes” loudly enough?

Depends what “ban” means. If it refers to them not being able to be commercially active in the EU because they violate EU regulations, sure. So no selling ads, no targeting ads, no selling blue check-marks.

If it refers to preventing people from the EU to access their website through meddling with DNS or similar means, then i am against it. We should be able to access it, but they shouldnt be able to make money off it in the EU.

X does not and will not comply with EU rules, and thus needs to be banned until they change (i.e. indefinitely).

Banning shitter - sounds okay to me

I would rather the users all realize it’s a nazi bar and stop using it, but that’s never going to happen. Too many people are oblivious, don’t care, or are pro-nazi. Shutting down the nazi bar with the power of the state is acceptable to me.

Not a twitter/x or bluesky user, never really my type of preferred social media. So I wouldn’t miss it.

However we must realize the most crucial factor about X in Europe, the fact that it’s a clearly compromised and biased network, highly subject to corruption, division and disinformation.

Would the average person participate and support X if it was owned by a russian oligarch? And that russian propaganda was quite obvious within the social platform?

Some would, sure, but the majority would mistrust it and be far more critical about potentially false information.

So yeah, it should be categorically banned from EU nations. Not because I hate it, but because of the dangers of division it represents to our society. Specially when for those who like X-style platforms there’s already “non-regime” alternatives.

Yes. Freedom of speech? There is no true freedom of speech there so limiting X is not a violation of it

Fuck Twitter but not sure a ban would be a good thing

To be honest, I wouldn’t mind. I also wouldn’t mind banning any and all of social media.
The experiment was fun while it lasted but as is often the case some people poison the well. And that happened to every social media. In my eyes every social media is very much a propaganda tool and destabilizes the democracies around the world. The corporations behind these are not moderating enough because they don’t want to or it is to costly for them or just - what I can understand - too much to do feasibly.
So every social media should be banned. I understand that this is not what everyone thinks or wants to hear, but in my eyes the car already hit the wall and we have to live with the consequences.
(I do fully understand that this means reddit, feddit, youtube and others. I would really miss feddit and youtube but well… I like to live in a progressive society and not in a dystopian, propaganda riddled shadow of its former self.)

A tiktok ban style law would go against freedom of speech. Better to let the EC and the courts ban Twitter based on the existing, sensible DSA law.

I’m not a believer in any form of censorship. That’s not how you fight against shit ideas or products.

Also, what would be next? Ban people not voting for the right candidate and then, those wearing socks the wrong color? According to who? That’s a dangerously slippery slope…

I’m sorry if this is not a good community for this question. If not please point me to one.

‘Buy from EU’ as I see it is not ‘force people to buy from EU’ it’s more about ‘encourage people by showing them EU alternatives as honestly as possible’ (they’re not perfect, nor are they always as feature-rich as the US alternatives) ;)