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.
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?
Where is the censorship here?
uuhhhhhhh…. ummm…… there’s…. uhhhh….