Do you think an European Citizens’ Initiative to ban Twitter in the EU would be beneficial and have a possibility of being successful?

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  • Libb@jlai.lu
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    4 hours ago

    I’m not a believer in any form of censorship. That’s not how you fight against shit ideas or products.

    Also, what would be next? Ban people not voting for the right candidate and then, those wearing socks the wrong color? According to who? That’s a dangerously slippery slope…

    I’m sorry if this is not a good community for this question. If not please point me to one.

    ‘Buy from EU’ as I see it is not ‘force people to buy from EU’ it’s more about ‘encourage people by showing them EU alternatives as honestly as possible’ (they’re not perfect, nor are they always as feature-rich as the US alternatives) ;)

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      2 hours ago

      The slippery slope argument is such bullshit. The reason the Nazis got to power is because of the slippery slope argument. The reason Mussolini got into power is because of the slippery slope argument. Fascism should not be acceptable. End of story.

      Learn history.

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        1 hour ago

        Learn history.

        Repeating crap you’ve heard here or there has little to do with learning history, or learning anything for that matter but I’ve little hope this will change any time soon.

        Thanks nonetheless for that wise suggestion, we should all agree upon studying history (a lot more interesting than simply learning it, mind you).

        The slippery slope argument is such bullshit. The reason the Nazis got to power is because of the slippery slope argument. The reason Mussolini got into power is because of the slippery slope argument. Fascism should not be acceptable. End of story.

        Also, thx for such an articulated comment that excellently demonstrates as much practice as desire to discuss our diverging view points. Unless, could it be I only have a (apparently terribly wrong) personal opinion on a question upon which you speak the truth? In which case, what was that you were saying? Oh, yeah: ‘end of story’.

        Edit: small corrections