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X (former Twitter) lost court-cases about shadowbanning after critical post about EU and CSAM (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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.

Dutch article about the verdict - paywall : https://www.volkskrant.nl/tech/x-mag-gebruikers-niet-meer-zomaar-shadowbannen-oordeelt-amsterdamse-rechter~befb7fd0/

Archived copy : https://archive.ph/ckW2a

tl;dr English translation :

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.

Mekić on Mastodon : https://mastodon.social/@DannyMekic

The author's username on X : DannyMekic

Article from last year by WIRED : https://www.wired.com/story/csar-chat-scan-proposal-european-commission-ads/

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[–] andyburke@fedia.io 38 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If you are a reporter, I do not see how you could use or trust that platform at this point.

[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Strongly agree but lots keep using X, in fact it seems to get worse :(

[–] Cube6392@beehaw.org 5 points 10 months ago

Momentum is a hell of a drug

[–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

There's most definitely not more users. But there's a alot not going away either.

In my country corporations and even sports clubs are pulling out of Twitter. So it's definitely getting less and less relevant.

[–] en1gma@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Be cautious/aware, that X is full of bots. Especially since Musk's takeover. They train their AI (Gronk) with the content on X.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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.ml 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

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[–] lemmyreader@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 6 points 10 months ago

that ~~tried~~ tries to break E2EE.

[–] mat@jlai.lu 4 points 10 months ago

Truth is : either they are a infrastructure provider and they allow everything inside the free speech of each country they operate in, either they choose what gets promoted or is allowed differently from the local free speech and they are an editor. They can't (and imho should never have been allowed to) choose only the benefits of each one without any obligation.

[–] pleb_maximus@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago

No one is forcing Twatter to say anything, they are forced to let someone say something.

It is a result of free speech. Although not from the American perspective, as that only relates to the government. However, over here it also means that the government has to enforce your rights against others too. And since platforms like facebook and Twatter are as big as they are… Tough luck for them to have to host someone linking to a news article they wrote.