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Twitter axes European Commission's ad account after €120M EU fine
- alextingle 11mo agoSo childish.
- casenmgreen 11mo agoIt seems petty, vindictive and childish.
- DaSHacka 11mo ago[flagged]
- maelito 11mo agoThey should have left X a long time ago. Now is not too late.
- pjmlp 11mo agoThe grown ups have left the room, and it certainly won't make the fine go away. Here is an idea, just leave EU completely.
- grimblee 11mo agoYes, excellent idea ! Let's make X less legitimate by removing a bunch of people.
- bgbntty2 11mo agoIt doesn't sit right with me that a government body has an ad account in a centralized for-profit service in the first place. Even having a free account seems wrong to me. The European Commission could post news, updates on its work and polls on the official European Commission site. I don't think the government should favor corporate social media sites or have anything to do with them in the first place. If they feel like posting on their own site is not enough, why not use a free social media outlet? Something self-hosted, using ActivityPub, for example?
- timeon 11mo ago> Something self-hosted, using ActivityPub, for example? There is one: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/public/local https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/public/local
- dlahoda 11mo agohttps://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115667715373633924 https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/1156677153... Deceptive design of its ‘blue checkmark’ Lack of transparency of its advertising repository Failure to provide access to public data for researchers
- lucideer 11mo agoThis seems like a really odd take. What you're effectively advocating for here is for people not to see information about publicly funded services, because ultimately centralised for-profit services own user attention, & therefore govern what the majority of people see. > why not use a free social media outlet? This would be fine if people used free social media outlets. They don't. Short of banning private social media, I don't see what governments can do to change that.
- DivingForGold 11mo agohttps://archive.ph/icfS3 https://archive.ph/icfS3
- hesgoingpubpub 11mo ago[flagged]
- hesgoingpubpub 11mo agoThe 'acquirer' of Twitter then spent $300 million - presumably fraudulently embezzled from an excessive bonus at a car company - getting Trump elected, and wastefully f'ed with a bunch of already expensively cost-justified government contracts in government for 130 days. Here's the car ad: Trump buys a Tesla from Elon Musk at the White House https://youtube.com/watch?v=VGOG_q7Vzxo& https://youtube.com/watch?v=VGOG_q7Vzxo&
- estimator7292 11mo ago"X" is so ambiguous as to be meaningless. That character is literally the canonical stand-in for "something". Call it twitter so everyone understands what you're talking about without having a long pretentious conversation where you want to feel superior for defending a Nazi's right to rename a website.
- phoronixrly 11mo agoI think it's only fair to deadname X.
- x______________ 11mo ago>"X" is so ambiguous as to be meaningless. That character is literally the canonical stand-in for "something". I totally agree!
- SilverElfin 11mo ago> Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, accused the EU executive of trying to amplify its own social media post about the fine on X by trying “to take advantage of an exploit in our Ad Composer.” For those that haven’t followed Nikita Bier on Twitter, he’s a childish and immature person. The way he talks about changes at X is completely unprofessional. So this type of deceptive revenge action is completely in character. I guess Elon hired him for that reason.
- DaSHacka 11mo ago[flagged]
- ChrisArchitect 11mo agoRelated: X hit with $140M EU fine for breaching content rules https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46163721 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46163721