@joemcl they are literally just talking about setting up a European-owned propaganda entity instead of an American-owned propaganda entity
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@coolboymew @joemcl realistically, if they actually cared about this would they want to switch to the Fediverse? Imagine switching people to Mastodon and now it's whack-a-mole trying to block every server that pops up that's posting content illegal in Europe. Not happening. European countries fund Mastodon a little bit because it has the _appearance of opposing American Internet hegemony_. If Mastodon actually got big enough to compete, it wouldn't be controllable and they've already shown they don't want that any more than America wants that.
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@sun @coolboymew @joemcl They would force Mastodon to implement a 3rd auto-moderation service. It's not like that isn't a planned feature already anyway.
Don't have the auto-mod enabled? Good, now your instance is illegal in the EU through some obscure directive.
Don't have the auto-mod enabled? Good, now your instance is illegal in the EU through some obscure directive.