Obviously the way the previous commenter worded it would infringe on the platforms' free speech, it's only workable if we replace "harmful" with "illegal" (e.g. libelous).
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I post a lot and don't usually get hateful insults, in fact most of what I post gets no comments at all.
The way I find most things I post is literally just that I repost them from my Mastodon feed.
This is a complex issue and both of the comments above are way oversimplifying it...
Lots of governments around the world are nowadays claiming that their laws apply to all or many websites that can be accessed in their borders. Whether they can enforce this if the website has no physical assets in the country is a very different question. They could arrest their operators when they enter their countries (as happened to Pavel Durov), or they could geoblock websites, or... here are some starting points for further research:
- https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/88635/can-the-uk-government-do-anything-about-a-foreign-media-platform-rooting-for-civ
- https://politics.stackexchange.com/questions/20490/what-politically-can-be-done-to-compel-global-compliance-by-google
- https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/05/when-trolls-take-on-tyrants-4chan-and-kiwi-farms-sue-the-uk-over-extraterritorial-censorship/
Assuming "EU" means "European Union" (the acronym can stand for other things too): if you don't put "Europe" or "European Union" in the title or sidebar, no one who searches for these things is ever going to find this community.
also there is already !EuropeanUnion@europe.pub
I remember reading that Loops (? - may be wrong about which one) does the same thing, only displaying statuses with videos in them. I have not, so far, seen anyone claim that that is a bad thing, and frankly don't agree that it is. If we can't do that, then we can never have specialized platforms built on ActivityPub, e.g. platforms only for videos or for photos, etc., and that would severely limit what we can do with it.
misleading headline, this isn't a list of countries in which the law will (if it passes) be different (it won't be, it's an EU law, so will be the same in all EU countries), it's a list of countries that currently support/oppose the law
The way I read is that it isn't (or not only) about menu item number 67, but about order number 67 (i.e. the 67th order since the counter was reset).