cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/163062

Last year Danny Mekić wrote this article : https://dannymekic.com/202310/undermining-democracy-the-european-commissions-controversial-push-for-digital-surveillance which was published in a newspaper and then the author got shadow-banned on X. Today the same Dutch newspaper reported that Mekić won two court-cases about this.

X is not allowed to shadow-ban users easily the judge said. Only during the court-case X explained why the account of Meki was shadow-banned : He had shared an article about the CSAM law on X. “I still
do not understand why X this only said in the court hall, rather than telling me right away when I
asked about it” Mekić said.

  • Zak@lemmy.world
    61·
    5 months ago

    I’m a little surprised by Twitter restricting an account for that. Of course I never believed Musk’s free speech rhetoric, but this isn’t a specific issue where I’d expect them to put their thumb on the scale so blatantly.

  • makeasnek@lemmy.mlEnglish
    66·
    5 months ago

    It is nonsense that courts can require an online platform to host content from somebody they don’t agree with, this is compelled speech. And we’re cheering it on because X is seen as a political opponent. It sure will be fun when the shoe is on the other foot and courts are thinking they have some right to force lemmy to host or not host certain kinds of content that doesn’t agree w the new party line or is “misinformation”. “COVID was a lab leak” was misinformation until the world government’s decided it might actually have merit as an idea. Handing the government speech control powers like this is dangerous. Democracy relies on people being able to choose what they say and don’t say and share or not share that information.

    • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      And we’re cheering it on because X is seen as a political opponent.

      I’m cheering this on among others because the shadow-banned person wrote something important about a sick EU law proposal that tried to break E2EE.