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

Musk should be prosecuted for distribution of CSAM.

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.

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

On what legal grounds would that happen?

How about we start throwing executives into jail starting with the top and working the way down?

How do you enforce the fines? Wouldn't you have to invade the USA to enforce any meaningful fines?

Anarchism for the rich(law does not affect them), rugged police state for the poor,

I’m not clicking the link to read this but these sort of headlines are often a result of their survey intentionally wording things like this to spin the narrative. Anyone who does in fact want it banned immediately would still say yes to the question. I’d suspect there are many such folks across Europe.

So you suggest that people should see others in real life? Out and about? What are you, a savage?

Just imagine how funny it would be if people would just ditch all that shit.

Yes, I wish they would ban Tesla cars in Europe. That would be amazing.

They'll immediately ban "from the river to the sea" and prosecute everyone who says/displays it. but a multinational corporation is just allowed to break the law and maybe the politicians will at some point allowed them to face the law.

Lmao, if only

According to a new YouGov survey, a vast majority of respondents in Germany, France, Spain, Italy and Poland (60-78%) think that the EU should take further action against X if it does not address breaches to European law brought forward by the Commission last year [1]. The majority of those (62%-73%) who wanted further action – and 47% of total participants – want X to be banned from the EU if it refuses to address these breaches [2]

I imagine some of them are okay with fines, or strongly worded letters.

A lot of politicians and governments still use it as an official platform. I wish they would stop doing that and giving it any sort of legitimacy.

To be fair, the only time I used Twitter was in a data science course that required to capture some data from the "firehose" (unsorted and unfiltered realtime stream of tweets). Other than that I never cared for it. Wouldn't affect me at all if they ban it, so it's easy to be in favor of such a ban.

lol people will go to meta threads first, not that.

And why would not these be also banned shortly thereafter?

I think you are mistaken. It will have a huge positive impact on the EU.

Yesterdaythe moment the sink carrying cancer walked in.

Unfortunately, the other half of the people who don't want it banned have all the political capital.

but lemmy :(

You might not realize it, but the Fediverse is social media so a ban would be rather detrimental to this place.

That's literally not possible.

I'm not talking about from a practical standpoint I'm talking about from a theoretical standpoint.

Given that social media being a form of media where humans socialize with each other is not something that can be banned because humans are intrinsically social creatures and modern technology facilities media based communication.

What we don't need is social media banned. We need regulation and enforcement and teeth for those regulations.

Almost all of the bad and negative parts of social media are results of companies driving profits and engagement at the cost of everything else, including the well-being of their users (Such as artificially, inflating, negativity and division because that drives more engagement).

What is?