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I deleted my Twitter at the beginning of this year. Never used it much, just followed a lot of metal bands on it. I don't regret it for a single second. Everyday since, it's just been one giant non-stop shit show. It's sad to see so many still use it, but for my own good conscience, I can't support that platform in any way. I avoid it like the plague.

He's basically the new Trump, in that for five years you could not escape Trump's fucking face on every website you visited. Perhaps Musk isn't quite that level, but he's not far off. He's in the news an insane amount, and it's basically as annoying as Trump, only he's not as ugly or stupid.

I miss Apollo where yoy could block any keyword which prevented me from seeing commwnts or posts that contained specific text…

Edit: someone below pointed out Voyager can do this in theur web app! Thanks again dude!

Musk has made it clear that this was never about money. Er, at least not about Xitter making money.

A bit below that it says that they're also threatening fines of 6% of annual revenue.

I sometimes feel like the only person that remembers that DSA exists. It went into effect in August.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Services_Act

If your going to bash him, don't do it for him playing computer games.

....there are plenty of proper reasons!

Failure to comply with the European regulations around illegal content could result in fines worth 6% of a company’s annual revenue.

“I remind you that following the opening of a potential investigation and a finding of non-compliance, penalties can be imposed,” Breton wrote.

The second might be just talk but the first one is very much “something”.

It's 6% of world-wide turnover, not EU revenue. The neat part about turnover is that you can't play shenanigans with accounting. It's very unlikely to be the full 6% though and they will want to keep some headroom for escalation and even more egregious cases.

But yes this is absolutely "drive a company bankrupt" kind of territory and that's precisely the intention. Either Twitter shapes up, leaves the EU market, or gets fined into non-existence.

Because they aren't making much money? Considering this isn't based on profit but revenue, that's a pretty significant fine

I would argue a major difference between misinformation on some place like Lemmy and misinformation on Twitter, is that Musk as owner of Twitter is amplifying this misinformation. Elon Musk frequently replies to people spreading misinfo and shouts out their accounts.