Summary
Over 60 German and Austrian universities and research institutions announced their exit from Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter), citing the platform’s promotion of right-wing populist content and its incompatibility with democratic and scientific values.
This follows Germany’s Federal Court of Justice and trade unions leaving the platform.
The German government is also debating a withdrawal, expressing concerns over X’s polarizing effect on political discourse.
The departure comes after Musk’s public support for Germany’s far-right AfD party and a live talk with its leader Alice Weidel ahead of upcoming elections.
Fukkin ban the website.
There’s already laws for it, just ban it.
We can also ban the far right AfD. The law allows it and almost everyone who knows enough about the German law supports it saying that it has good chances to be successful, but still nothing happens. It has been over one year since we got probably the biggest protests since the reunification of Germany, they happened after reports of members of the AfD being part of a meeting where they planned mass deportations, and no political party gave a damn about it.
It’s almost as if the financial elite doesn’t rally care about freedom and all that democracy bullshit.
“Right wing populist content”
Just call it what it is: lying to stir up hatred.
Remember when “social media” was our friends posting vacation pictures on their glitter-GIF-dumpster MySpace pages and memes were about funny cats who couldn’t spell, instead of both being weaponized fashy-virus vectors?
And now we’re talking about entire nations banning internet platforms thanks to ultra-rich crybabies using meme-fluence to buy elections.
. . .man. . . :(
Anyway, yeah Germany, we’re over here on our own community-led open-source infrastructure having a great time, jus’sayin.
I’ve heard your people even have the best memes too!
Germany’s feds better not start a tiktok. :(
Germany’s feds better not start a tiktok. :(
Sorry to inform you, but this has already happened. Some police departments have an account and do ultra cringe marketing on there. Than we have our Nazi party AfD spitting bullshit and hatred and then other parties who also do some cringe shit.
Germany’s feds better not start a tiktok. :(
The german police already has. It is very cringe, as expected.
Edit: And I’m pretty sure a lot of political parties are on there as well. I dont have tiktok though, so idk.
Good fucking riddance. What took them so long?
Lazyness. Incompetence. Lack of know. Lack of Care.
The same shit everywhere.
https://youtu.be/TXlHKTPfLVA?si=mTjZ7t-3sosVLcgt
Reminds me of this scene.
I wish!
Leave it and…
Leave it and…
block that steaming pile of garbage.
It’s critical to make this asshat’s soapbox irrelevant.
That’s a cartoon waiting to happen. Musk jumping up and down on his dilapidated soapbox, in the center of X plaza, surrounded only by his bots. It’s the glorious final stage of the echo chamber.
What the hell took them so fucking long. Anyone still using Xitter is a fascist enabler.
Well ain’t that a sweeping generalization. Almost like it can’t possibly be true…
Like: Vacation in SA = Support butchering of Journalists.
It’s really that easy. Give money to evil people (on purpose knowingly)… support evil shit.
Consumersnhave some responsibility too. Everything else is deflection and: Mimimimi
Like Nestle… avoid their products, kill the company. “But I like Nesquick”… Alright, eat Nesquick kill some Chocolate Framers for it, but be aware what you do.
Everything else is deflection and: Mimimimi
I always chuckle when I see this in the wild. For non-Germans: mimimi is mocking what someone said, like they are whining, for instance if they proclaim something is unfair.
Yes
Please rest of the world - SHUN Musk and to whatever degree you can, also Trump, exactly like this. Their egos can’t handle it, and your efforts to de-legitimize them both may be one of our most effective weapons to limit the damage they do.
When they ask why, tell them “Because you’re friggin weird and we’ve had enough.” Lol
This is the case with so many world leaders. If nobody accepted their money, and everyone just pointed, laughed, rolled their eyes, and moved on whenever they opened their mouths, they’d instantly cease to have power over world events.
If only…
When they ask why, don’t respond.
X is pronounced like “icks” in German. Appropriate.
I still call it Xitter (shitter).
Godammit, elon. All you had to do was be cool. Coast on that "visionary’ crap and keep on winning life. But, no. You are just and asshole. Jerk.
Get out now!
Kindergarten cop right?
Yes :)
Better late than never…
I fear where they are going to go… they probably have a governmental Mastodon instance, but will go to Bluesky or Threads. They will have learned next to nothing from the experience, I bet.
Makes sense, since you know Musk can and will corrupt what you say on his platform.
this is just like what mark zuckerberg said about all of europe having “too much censorship” and “making innovation impossible”. but i guess if germany really cared about being unbiased they would have moved all their institutions to texas by now or something.
Where is the innovation? Those companies just buy other companies they don’t innovate they buy
they innovate new ways of performing regulatory capture and new ways of monopolizing industries. rest assured that this is all a good thing somehow
And are we sure these monopolies are located in germany and not say the US?
no the monopolies are all in the US as evidenced by mark zuckerberg, in his infinite wisdom, saying that “europe makes it impossible to innovate anything there”
Where is the censorship here?
uuhhhhhhh…. ummm…… there’s…. uhhhh….
