Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "Could the EU Ban X/Twitter?" video.

  1.  @edmurth  Not everyone needs to understand it, only a few need to understand it for it to be exposed if they are doing anything wrong. I agree that more transparency is needed, but I also think more accountability online is needed, because these people are able to say whatever they want, regardless of truth or not, and it does manipulate a lot of followers, which can be dangerous with people in positions of power that have a lot of followers, we see that with popular right wing media all the time how they manipulate the readers and viewers, and we are seeing it online now, there is zero accountability for what's being said, that's the main issue.
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  2. It would be great if it does happen, but I doubt it will, but say it did, rivals will love that, because a big void in the EU market would be taken advantage off by rivals to X, that could put them in a better position for them to compete with X on the world stage. Another thing, if the EU were to ban X, you can bet many other governments around the world will follow, as many are probably waiting on a big player to do so. In any case, Elon Musk is becoming a liability for them with how he's becoming radicalised.
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  3. If it were to be banned, an alternative will quickly swoop in and take advantage of the situation, being the EU is a big market, I can see other companies wanting to take advantage of X's misfortune.
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  4. Think of the internet a bit like real life, the only difference is that we have far more laws and regulations on real life on what we can and can't do, whereas on the internet, it's far too much like the wild west that anything can be said without any accountability. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for free speech, but there are limits, and it's clear that powerful figures are manipulating people's minds in the million with half-truths, disinformation and lies. At the end of the day, if the internet does get far more regulated, don't blame the EU, blame the people that are pushing an agenda with being radicalised on it, especially on the far right which have been manipulating people for years, first with the right wing media and now on social media, and we are seeing across Europe and North America how dangerous that can be, and it's only getting worse as we see with the far right rise in Europe and North America. So the real question is, how much worse will this get before governments start to clamp down on it?
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  5. I don't think the EU will ban X but with Musk becoming more radicalised, he's becoming more dangerous to peoples minds, being that he's a popular figure in control of one of the biggest social media sites, but if X was to be banned, I don't think most Europeans would miss it, they will adapt and move on very quickly, but X on the other hand can't afford for the EU to ban it because of the ripple effect that would have on X, for one, it would leave a void in the EU market for rivals to X to capitalise on, two, if the EU bans X, others around the world likely will, and three, X being banned in the EU, a lot of people around the world will start to question Musk and the X service, it could do serious damage to X and Elon Musk. He basically can say things on X without a care in the world and millions of people will listen, regardless of if it's truth or not, and this is a problem because there is no accountability on what these people say that have a bigger influence on peoples minds, Elon Musk isn't the only person doing this kind of thing, and I'm all for free speech but that does have its limits, especially on people that can manipulate millions of followers based on lies and half-truths, and this is the internet all over, zero accountability on anything that's being said, which is fine for the average Joe as we don't have any real influence, but for this rich powerful people, they are playing with peoples minds and it's becoming dangerous, this isn't just Musk, there are others like Farage, Trump and the likes that are twisting things up, knowing many followers will believe them. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for free speech, but I do think we need some accountability online, especially on people that have a lot of followers on what they say, because for now, they seem to be able to say anything they want, regardless if it's a lie or not and they can get away with it because there's no accountability for them and this is something that's going on with the far right from the media to politicians for the last 2 or so decades, and it really is twisting up the mindset of people that they don't know what to believe, so either we keep letting the far right continues to twist things up or we need to clamp down with more accountability. In any case, because of this confrontation, Musk is likely to become more radicalised and more dangerous, it might force the EU to ban X if Musk continues to meddle, and personally, I would love it if the EU were to ban X, but the EU is a very rules based system and very diplomatic on these things, so they don't get emotional and do things likely, but it's clear to me that things need to change, whether it's the free press on the right that twist peoples minds or some online social media sites that do the same, free speech is all well and good but when we have powerful individuals twisting peoples minds in the millions, it becomes dangerous, and we saw signs of that in the UK with the recent riots where Musk and even Farage were more or less twisting the narrative to more or less support and push the far rights agenda.
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