The EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) makes Big Tech (like Meta, Google) reveal how they track users, moderate content, and handle disinformation. Most of these companies hate the law and are lobbying against it in Brussels—but except for Twitter (now X), they’re at least trying to follow it for EU users.
Meanwhile, US politics may push Big Tech to resist these rules more aggressively, especially since they have strong influence over the current US government.
AI will be the next big tech divide: The US will likely have little regulation, while the EU will take a much stronger approach to regulating. Growing tensions—over trade, military threats, and tech policies—are driving the US and EU apart, and this split will continue for at least four more years.
The EU's proposed billion dollar fine for Twitter/X disinformation, is just the start of European & American tech diverging into separate spheres.
byu/lughnasadh inFuturology
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AI regulation means fuck all when it’s open-source and can be ran locally. Also fuck Twitter, that sounds like a win for me. The real question is how does this affect decentralized social media like Mastodon or Bluesky that are inherently resistant to this?
You could name any amount, and it still wouldn’t be enough.
It’s embarrassing how fast we collectively stopped talking about how facebook, twitter, Reddit, and other social media cites were censoring factually accurate discussions as misinformation during covid. Especially egregious was the censorship of qualified scientists and university professors.
When Twitter was sold we were exposed to this uncomfortable truth.
The people behind that censorship think you and I are stupid enough to not notice their propaganda and disinformation tactics. The majority of us dislike.the bad things Trump and Elon do, but we also dislike thats same behavior from anyone on any side. We don’t like croney capitalism and we want corporations out of our lives.
I don’t understand what is “disinformation” and how it is different from “censorship”…