Overview:
The community dedicated to boycotting the US until they stop fascism, restore full democracy and start following international law.
Americans have a moral obligation to resist Donald Trump and project 2025 at every turn.
America is a flawed democracy currently being ruled by oligarchs. Stop the backslide! Dont let America become the next Hungary.
America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.
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Related communities:
Boycott:
!buycanadian@lemmy.ca
Activism:
!antitrumpalliance@lemmy.world
It would be great if all three co-ordinated with other governments, so all ban Twitter at the same time.
And yes, ban Twitter; not just Grok. The business behind it (Musk and other clowns) knows fully well what its model is doing, and should be held responsible.
Let's hope the EU joins the party.
Ban all of musk’s companies. Ban Tesla too
Am Australian, press (x) for doubt.
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Any one of these countries could do it alone if we weren't cowards
Regrettably, Carney and Minister Solomon have each said that a ban of X is off the table (thanks /s, you knobs). It'd be nice to see Starmer do something good for a change
(Edit: also, I believe what Starmer is proposing is a ban of Grok on X, as opposed to a ban of X)
When did they say that? I'm pretty pissed that the kiddy porn deep fake pro Hitler platform isn't getting smaller with every fine and law we have on the books.
Just after midnight today, Jan 11th: "Contrary to media reports, Canada is not considering a ban of X."
Source: https://xcancel.com/EvanLSolomon
Not surprised, but still disappointing. Had my hopes up for a second, against my better judgment. X is top of the list for tech to block and yet our government ministers and PM at still on there using it.
That AI minister is a fuckwit
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini
You guys really don't get it yet do you?
That's apparently an unsourced quote but in practice it distills everything else he has to say about corporatism in particular and everything being within the state and such so whatever, just be aware you won't be able to find a speech with that phrase in it
I would argue that it also crucially ignores his goal of taking over the power of the church as well, but Mussolini was cagey on that matter by necessity so it's not evidence against the quote.
Chances are these dumb fucks are not gonna ban anything if they focus on having shit in the news first. Just put the actual legislation in place. Act first, blabber later.
Watch them all move to Threads instead..
Or Bluesky
Rather Bluesky then treads imo, mastodon is way to obscure for these people unfortunately.
"obscure". @Person@somewhere "omg, it has one more @ than an email! I'm so lost!"
I didn't say i agreed with them, i understand them as in i've heard their 'reason' lol.
That obviously would be preferable given the choices. Even though I hate walled gardens with a passion.
I just found the idea of moving from one "eccentric" billionaire from USA's platform to another billionaire from USA's platform funny. Lest we forget about how meta has handled the flow of information in the past like with the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar.
This would be great. Though it’s a bit dumb they are doing it over grok. There’s plenty of better reasons to ban x. But good luck.
Elon is letting it make CSAM, probably because that's what he's in to.
It's an easy point of rhetoric to say it's about the children, not because they don't like what me has to say
Boycott anything musk
This just means they will cancel accounts, which they should have done years ago. Lazy fucks can go back to information web sites.
It won’t get banned in Australia. Musk will pull Starlink and that will absolutely force the federal governments hand. The outback and most of rural Australia are on Starlink.
Rejecting a blatant vehicle for fascism might be worth the annoyance.
Yeah, you kinda need to live out there to understand why breaking from it will be difficult.
It completely changed internet access out there, in many parts. Unfortunately the investment in optic fibre NBN or mobile tower services has been nowhere near enough.
There are alternatives offered by other satellite constellation.
There are but they’re costly and nowhere near as fast.
What do they mean by "ban" in this context?
Stop having official government accounts?
Demand that all elected officials (and public servants?) delete personal accounts?
Block it from being accessed within the country?
i envy you... i also want my country to ban twitter :/
I hate that the gov is censoring the internet, it's really going downhill fast...
...but I'll give them a pass on this one
i think it's necessary. it's not about surpressing an opinion, but an army of fake news or conspiracy bots, propaganda, ai slop, racism, hate speech etc. the idea that you just have to educate people against this is illusory. where can you get educaged, when the internet is confronting you with 100 times the amount of information that frabicates another "reality"? it is so much easier to talk in easy headlines that you can just invent, than to explain your point, defend it with facts that you have to prove and account for the nuances.
i'm totally for free speech - however you have to take responsibility. platforms like x without proper moderation don't do that. they fail to take responisbility.
People can still switch to Mastodon. After all, the only thing Twitter offers is the content made by users. If users switch, Twitter has no content.
Yayyyy
