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Nearly Half of Europeans Want X Banned if it Continues to Break the Law (peoplevsbig.tech)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] 149 points 8 months ago (16 children)

I think if any other (smaller) site were continually posting CSAM without moderation, it would be banned. What's different about X? The fact that Elon Musk runs it and he's in with a powerful dictator?

At some point you have to admit the CSAM is not the problem, it's the person running it, whether they have the power to stop you/fight back or not.

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  • [โ€“] 12 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    not just banned, but there would be criminal charges brought on the owners.

    Musk should be prosecuted for distribution of CSAM.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 8 months ago

    Absolutely. And soliciting Epstein for sex with minors. Let's not forget about that. He was begging to get on the island and get some underage tail. It was pretty pathetic.

    He should be held liable, but he won't be. Not by people who do the same thing.

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  • [โ€“] 25 points 8 months ago* (5 children)

    What's different about X?

    Well, you kind of said it yourself: The fact that, since it's sadly still one of the largest social outlets, there's a whole economy around it. If Europe banned X tomorrow, a lot of people and companies would take a non-negligible hit to their revenue. We can argue that probably these people are not a majority of the other half of people in Europe that don't want X gone, but in the end, politicians and lawmakers care about money and (in a very distant second place) what the majority of their constituents say.

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  • [โ€“] 18 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I wonder how feasible it would be if they'd announce a deadline whereby it would be blocked and recommend people and business to move onto a federated alternative.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    You and I both know people, politicians, journalists would just move to Threads before they move to the fedi or Bluesky or any FOSS alternative.

    They want an algorithm.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 8 months ago

    They wouldn't suddenly ban it though.

    Any ban would roll in without enough time for people to switch away. Twitter doesn't do anything special that can't be replicated elsewhere.

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  • [โ€“] -3 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    I think if any other (smaller) site were continually posting CSAM without moderation, it would be banned.

    On what legal grounds would that happen?

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    Confiscate every server that X uses as evidence. Same thing you do with any CSAM case.

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  • [โ€“] -3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    And how does that work legally?

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not a lawyer, but I've read (on sites like Ars Technica that cover technology) about dark web sites trading CSAM being shut down. By the FBI in America, by Interpol in the EU... I don't know what legal grounds they use to do it.

    You don't think CSAM should be illegal? Or you genuinely don't understand why it is, or what law it breaks?

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