Elon Musk and X are once again proving why institutions should never rely on corporate-owned, centrally-controlled social media platforms to reach their people.

[hejsimon@mastodon.social]

@Mastodon the EC shouldn't advertise and help fund that despicable Nazi website anyways.

[luupies@mastodon.social]

@Mastodon yup. All EU institutions, politicians, celebrities etc should be on Mastodon and not twitter etc as we cannot allow foreign entities to interefere with European communications. Ideally others should be there too but that is their decision.

[pa27@mastodon.social]

@Mastodon Who cares? They should quit twatter anyway, then Husk's tantrums are irrelevant.

[lonelyautomata@mastodon.social]

@Mastodon It's more like I want my government to stay away from the fediverse. They will ruin it.

[alexander_campbell@mastodon.social]

@Mastodon

THE USA IS A FACIAST STATE.

"The European Commission's fine isn't just an attack on X, it's an attack on all American tech platforms and the American people by foreign governments," Rubio wrote in a post on X.

"The days of censoring Americans online are over."

His remarks were reposted by Musk, who added "absolutely".

[ds@infosec.exchange]

@Mastodon who made it #ItsTimeToAbolishX and not something like #makeXyourEx, it's right there...

[leavex@mastodon.social]

@Mastodon Since January, we've been trying hard to convince all European politicians and leaders to abandon X.
Check out our open letter to all European politicians and leaders to abandon X/Twitter:

An Open Letter to All European Politicians and Leaders to Abandon X/Twitter

Protect Democracy

Leave X - Protect Democracy (leavex.eu)

Recently, we contacted @alexandrageese because she has shown synergy to our effort. (1) There are similar initiatives across Europe that joined efforts under the umbrella of Escape X, please check out @helloQuitX.

#LeaveX #EscapeX #eXit

(1) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alexandra-geese-b9059229_alexandra-geese-eptechsovereignty-ugcPost-7399733937612279808-pFfm

[animalrebellion@mastodon.social]

@milieudefensie @PartijvoordeDieren @greenpeace @AnimalRightsNL @animalsavemovement @BiteBackNL @AnonimousForTheVoiceless... Please use all possibillities of the #fediverse and decentralized open source software.

Think of mobilizing through #Mobilizon, using #Pixelfed instead of or next to Instagram, use #Peertube instead or next to youtube, use #cryptpad instead of next to googledocs.

[rexi@mastodon.social]

@Mastodon

The Commission should consider hosting its own #fediverse instance, of some flavor, in response.

Mastodon favored, of course...

[armandoborgatta@mastodon.social]

@Mastodon and what should the European Commission do? Don’t ask them! They have no clue! Ursula loves Elon and Donald! They all miss Adolf and Eva!!!

[hiphopheaven@mastodon.social]

@Mastodon i don't want to see bullish from governments. They can talk to journalists and let them talk about it on mastodon

[urbilateria@mastodon.social]

@Mastodon Spain: https://european-union.europa.eu/contact-eu_es

[jaystephens@mastodon.social]

@Mastodon
I'm this context, foreign-owned matters too.
Regulators are in a bind because they can threaten to block ordinary users' access to platforms (VPNs etc notwithstanding) but can't compel foreign corps to do anything, and they often ignore fines. If regulators then do block them, it's a vote loser.

[haubles@hachyderm.io]

@ds @Mastodon I've... made a terrible mistake

[florihas@mastodon.social]

@Mastodon #Switzerland

National Council: https://www.parlament.ch/en/organe/national-council/members-national-council-a-z

Council of States: https://www.parlament.ch/en/organe/council-of-states/members-council-of-state-a-z

Email addresses: firstname.lastname@parl.ch

#ItsTimeToAbolishX