Here is an idea, just leave EU completely.
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?
There is one: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/public/local
Deceptive design of its ‘blue checkmark’
Lack of transparency of its advertising repository
Failure to provide access to public data for researchers
> 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.
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.
X hit with $140M EU fine for breaching content rules
alextingle•2mo ago