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    He then went on to say…“Only Americans should attack others!”. Old Hillbilly Ugly.

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    US companies should not influence european politics and elections further to the right with their garbage algorithms and european politics should protect Europe from that.

    Go fuck a couch.

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    I agree. We should just stop using them. If all official accounts within the EU move to Mastodon, journalists and people will follow. Additionally, that supports the EU economy.

    Idiots can stay on X. Enjoy.

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      Haven’t many moved to Bluesky already? X is for Muskstans i.e. losers and bigots only these days.

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        Bluesky is like X. Owned by american venture capitalists. EU needs something for official communication that’s neither under US nor under commercial control.

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          American and owned by American capitalists might be a big disadvantage, but that doesn’t automatically equals it to the nazi deepfake porn platform for foreign troll armies that X has become. Europeans better move to mastodon, but still moving to Bluesky is way better than staying at X. Bluesky is basically similar to X a decade ago. No sane and intelligent person in the world can deny that Twitter a decade ago was way better than C today.

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          Ah fair enough. Yes then, a non-US version would be good. I never use any of them personally.

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        Oh there’s a large number of people who can’t be arsed to move or who claim “i have to use it for my business”, “I have it but I don’t use it” and like that.

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          I’m in that second category. But I count for nothing as I never open it (I haven’t in probably 10 years, certainly never opened X, only Twitter) so those people don’t really matter.

          If you have decent things to say, your audience will follow you (or you build a new audience). Look at us, we’re all probably ex-redditors and we’re now all on here. Platform changing is possible.

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    A reminder that the garbage is a white supremacy echo chamber and child pornograph generation.

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    Bann all of the tech companies from outside EU. Tiktok as well. Then it’s also a solution to Vances problem.

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      Ban all of the commercial tech companies. Non-profits do not pose a danger to European sovereignty, as European devs can contribute and fork from it mostly.

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        I have no problem in social medias earning Monty on the userbase. But if it’s from Salling peoples private data it should be jailtime.

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      Imagine if americans started exporting their landfills to Europe, and Europe tried passing legislation to prevent this, and americans went “But it’s a free market, you shouldn’t make any laws restricting trade. If someone in Europe wants to buy american garbage, then they should have that option!”

      That’s essentially the argument I’ve heard americans make about importing american chicken to the UK, and the same mentality is obvious here.

      Ask them what that says about their tariffs and they’ll go “wtf are you talking about? that’s different!”

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    Fuck greedy ass American companies, we’ve put up with enough of their shit, even gave them corporate personhood for some stupid fucking reason, but even that’s not good enough for these greedy assholes, and they want MORE MORE MORE. It’s time to shut it down, just stop buying anything, fuck these clowns.