X has seemingly penalized the European Commission's account after the commission fined the company over blue checkmarks and ad transparency.

X has seemingly penalized the European Commission's account after the commission fined the company over blue checkmarks and ad transparency.

— TechCrunch (@techcrunch.com) 2025-12-07T19:29:04.667Z

Including our politicians.

You can actually block twitter, even most imbeds. Some days i can only read about half the stuff here. Its slightly disheartening to see how much DU is still onboard with twitter.

... accrued through obscene business practices makes makes Eloon a _____________________. Insert preferred appropriate colorful language here.

other is the Neo Nazi who owns it.

Ugly musk

TY & EFJ!!

and the rest of the world

and institutional inertia.

which I wish our admins will eventually allow better integration into DU posts like they do with X and Youtube.

I really thought X, being that it is, demonstrably, an actual white nationalist neo-nazi, Hitler-admiring platform by design, it might be rejected on Democratic. Underground. I was wrong.

I do like BlueSky. It seems to be doing well. I think the next big platform is yet unknown though.

More, please.

products there, he doesn't have to play by their rules. We know Trump isn't smart, so in his case it isn't surprising, but...oh never mind.

I don't open anything from TWIT-TER.
The first four letters alerted me immediately.
The Refuge Of Cowards. Gives license to expose your Inner Ugly and say whatever you want without having real-world consequences.
It's no surprise it has unleashed the worst impulses in our (un-) civilized culture. When the Babel-Bubble bursts, it will take us all down.
Humanity is long overdue for a re-boot. Hopefully the survivors will take a lesson and not follow the footsteps back down the trail to our current madness.

Unfortunately, history says otherwise.

Again and again and again.

Humans are gonna human. There seems to be nothing that will stop this.

Other than the obvious, I mean.

Time to face the facts and stop being on this fucks platform!!

Nice big fine for X not being compliant with EU requirements.

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/elon-musk-unleashes-fury-after-x-hit-with-140million-fine-by-the-eu-says-it-should-be-abolished/ar-AA1RQS4C?cvid=693616fe696448049ab09beb35b0c572&ei=25

Elon's response to the fine?

I'm bigger than you so I can do what I like!
Suggests the EU be disbanded, because they are picking on him!

Man baby, show us who you are!

But they're both dangerous buffoons.

millions of Americans.

Last chance to do what needs to be done to all these lawless clowns.

But also not a fan of how the European Union and many/most of its member countries restrict free speech. I'm very glad we have the first amendment.

...for when Tesla collapses and they can take it.

Musk and his politics is killing his brands.

Trump, by supporting the AfD, is a nazi.

Over 70% of the MAGA big web sites including one called MAGA for America is foreign in origin.
Musk bought Twitter so he could give platforms for right wing extremist propaganda which is then
down loaded onto American Conservative Web sites and it makes it seem that MAGA is much bigger
than it really is. Europe is all over his cyber terrorism and understand what a threat he is to democracy.

[My guess is all those far flung MAGA web sites can bet traced back to Russia and its cyber army called
Storm 15-16. Putin and Musk are old friends and Musk has been all over Ukraine's rare earth minerals]

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On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.

That's even more true on social media platforms, which allow anonymous users to rile up other users.

Elon Musk supercharged this idea when he bought Twitter. So it's no surprise that a lot of big accounts there turned out to be overseas trolls.

But lots of other people seemed to be shocked to learn that some high-profile accounts on X, the app formerly known as Twitter, are not who they say they are: A new feature on the app lets you see (more or less) where people are posting from, and it turns out that lots of X accounts that position themselves as very interested in American politics and culture are coming from places like India, Thailand and Eastern Europe.
https://www.businessinsider.com/fake-twitter-accounts-elon-musk-x-location-2025-11

Now sleep in it.

Ok for real how ever any of us feel about Elon this is not a smart move on the eu’s part they already have lots of civil unrest for government over reach in terms of jailing speech and on top of that a lot of them rely on Starlink for military operations like in the Ukraine and honestly everybody and their mom’s dog knows Trump is itching to get out of NATO. This would be perfect justification, regardless of the tiff that they had a year back and finally, Elon is still sort of the richest man in the world. It’s probably not a great idea to F with him. I’m just saying I think they need to just take a step back on this one he doesn’t operate as a publisher he lets anybody post whatever they want and people and the EU are getting really upset about the lack of freedom of speech that has kind of taken over over there. Just saying, I think it cooler head should prevail here and for anybody celebrates them sticking it to Elon too early. You might wanna just sit back and watch this one play out because I don’t think it’s gonna end the way you think it will.

He's a leech on the ass of humanity.

All Democrats are bad & evil and I better not find any of my employees helping them in any way. Oh yea and
fuck Ukraine. Welcome to DU.......

They are not restricting free speech. They are just exercising their choice to not use his platform. There are other social media platforms to share news. Blue Sky is popular with liberals.