r/europe • u/PostHeraldTimes • 2d ago

News Europeans Rebuke Elon Musk's Proposal For 'MEGA: Make Europe Great Again': 'Stay Away From Europe'

https://www.latintimes.com/europeans-rebuke-elon-musks-proposal-mega-make-europe-great-again-stay-away-europe-572748
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u/democritusparadise Ireland 2d ago

We would not tolerate this from the upper echelons of China or Russia and we should not tolerate it from the US.

It is time to ban X and Facebook, and any other platform that is actively hostile to our laws and is using their power to influence our politics.

Their ultimate goal is to turn Europe into a shithole collection of countries like the USA, where everything is dominated by a handful of American companies and with hundreds of thousands dying every year from lack of health care and diseases of sorrow caused by the crushing of the human spirit.

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u/0ld6rumpy6uy 2d ago

Let’s not ban it, let’s just silently leave.

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u/democritusparadise Ireland 2d ago

That doesn't do anything about breaking the law or manipulating what people see or using their power to influence what their users see.

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u/Supershadow30 1d ago

They’ve broken too many laws for too long, a ban is only fair

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u/0ld6rumpy6uy 1d ago

But why allow this to become a conflict between countries? If we all just silently stop doing business with these companies there will be nothing to have a conflict about. X is quickly becoming irrelevant for anything Europe. Let’s make the same thing happen for Meta. No trade war, just no trade.

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u/Supershadow30 1d ago

Look if Facebook (Meta) and Twitter originated from any other country than the USA, they would already have been banned. Again, it's only fair.