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Can't really see what the harm is if we believe DSA is a good thing and there is real reason to believe they aren't fulfilling the requirements then go ahead an

Can't really see what the harm is if we believe DSA is a good thing and there is real reason to believe they aren't fulfilling the requirements then go ahead and investigate. Interestingly, yesterday a Swedish newspaper published a story about conditions for child workers in africa mining minerals that go into the batteries of many car manufacturers. Many manufacturers were called out in the article, but Tesla were singled out in the headline (By far the biggest customer of these minerals so nothing strange in that). Twitter/X instantly placed a warning that the article link could be harmful. My trust in EU as a steward of free speech isn't unlimited, but it's massively higher in my trust that Elon Musk being the same.

andsoitis 3y ago
> Interestingly, yesterday a Swedish newspaper published a story about conditions for child workers in africa mining minerals that go into the batteries of many car manufacturers. Many manufacturers were called out in the article, but Tesla were singled out in the headline (By far the biggest customer of these minerals so nothing strange in that). Singling out Tesla is not surprising to me, given the recent labor action. But this headline just blinds us to the wider issue, as reported by Amnesty International already in 2016 about companies using child labor for battery minerals, including Apple, Samsung, Mercedes, Dell, HP, Microsoft, Vodafone, LG, etc. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/01/child-labour-behind-smart-phone-and-electric-car-batteries/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/01/child-labour-... > Twitter/X instantly placed a warning that the article link could be harmful Do you have a link to this? I’d love to see
- alkonaut 3y ago
  > Do you have a link to this? I’d love to see This is the article https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/jlWAOA/sa-kopplas-tesla-till-barngruvorna-vi-foljer-sparet https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/jlWAOA/sa-kopplas-tesla... Here is the X post where the journalist posted the link to the newspaper https://twitter.com/staffanlindberg/status/1736311263968326046 https://twitter.com/staffanlindberg/status/17363112639683260... If you follow the twitter link and click the newspaper link (image), you'll be shown the warning, and have been since the post was made yesterday. For posterity: this is the warning redirect in case it's removed from the link: https://twitter.com/safety/unsafe_link_warning?unsafe_link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aftonbladet.se%2Fnyheter%2Fa%2FjlWAOA%2Fsa-kopplas-tesla-till-barngruvorna-vi-foljer-sparet https://twitter.com/safety/unsafe_link_warning?unsafe_link=h...
  - andsoitis 3y ago
    > Here is the X post where the journalist posted the link to the newspaper https://twitter.com/staffanlindberg/status/17363112639683260 https://twitter.com/staffanlindberg/status/17363112639683260... > If you follow the twitter link and click the newspaper link (image), you'll be shown the warning, and have been since the post was made yesterday. I think it is an overreaction to say Twitter is silencing folks here. Not only can you access it, you can also turn off "safe filters", but the Streisand effect probably means more people are actually reading it and adding volume to the issue. So I don't know that you need to really worry about it!
rsynnott 3y ago
> Twitter/X instantly placed a warning that the article link could be harmful. It’s amazing to me that there are still people who haven’t heard of the Streisand Effect.

andsoitis 3y ago

> Interestingly, yesterday a Swedish newspaper published a story about conditions for child workers in africa mining minerals that go into the batteries of many car manufacturers. Many manufacturers were called out in the article, but Tesla were singled out in the headline (By far the biggest customer of these minerals so nothing strange in that). Singling out Tesla is not surprising to me, given the recent labor action. But this headline just blinds us to the wider issue, as reported by Amnesty International already in 2016 about companies using child labor for battery minerals, including Apple, Samsung, Mercedes, Dell, HP, Microsoft, Vodafone, LG, etc. https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/01/child-labour-behind-smart-phone-and-electric-car-batteries/ https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/01/child-labour-... > Twitter/X instantly placed a warning that the article link could be harmful Do you have a link to this? I’d love to see

alkonaut 3y ago
> Do you have a link to this? I’d love to see This is the article https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/jlWAOA/sa-kopplas-tesla-till-barngruvorna-vi-foljer-sparet https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/jlWAOA/sa-kopplas-tesla... Here is the X post where the journalist posted the link to the newspaper https://twitter.com/staffanlindberg/status/1736311263968326046 https://twitter.com/staffanlindberg/status/17363112639683260... If you follow the twitter link and click the newspaper link (image), you'll be shown the warning, and have been since the post was made yesterday. For posterity: this is the warning redirect in case it's removed from the link: https://twitter.com/safety/unsafe_link_warning?unsafe_link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.aftonbladet.se%2Fnyheter%2Fa%2FjlWAOA%2Fsa-kopplas-tesla-till-barngruvorna-vi-foljer-sparet https://twitter.com/safety/unsafe_link_warning?unsafe_link=h...
- andsoitis 3y ago
  > Here is the X post where the journalist posted the link to the newspaper https://twitter.com/staffanlindberg/status/17363112639683260 https://twitter.com/staffanlindberg/status/17363112639683260... > If you follow the twitter link and click the newspaper link (image), you'll be shown the warning, and have been since the post was made yesterday. I think it is an overreaction to say Twitter is silencing folks here. Not only can you access it, you can also turn off "safe filters", but the Streisand effect probably means more people are actually reading it and adding volume to the issue. So I don't know that you need to really worry about it!

rsynnott 3y ago

> Twitter/X instantly placed a warning that the article link could be harmful. It’s amazing to me that there are still people who haven’t heard of the Streisand Effect.