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JD Vance says US could veto NATO if Europe tries to regulate Elon Musk’s platforms (www.independent.co.uk)

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JD Vance has suggested that American support for NATO should be predicated on the European Union not regulating Elon Musk and his X social media platform, formerly known as Twitter.

The Republican vice presidential nominee and Ohio senator claimed in an interview with YouTuber Shawn Ryan that a top EU official had threatened to arrest the billionaire if he allowed former President Donald Trump back on X.

“The leader, I forget exactly which official it was within the European Union, but sent Elon this threatening letter that basically said, ‘We’re going to arrest you if you platform Donald Trump,’ who, by the way, is the likely next president of the United States,” Vance said in the interview published last week.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

That's true. Ancaps love to talk how almost anything government-done can be done by private entities in the right conditions and social consensus. Turns out this is true for censorship too.

I'm completely ideology-agnostic at this point. Whatever works, works. Nothing around seems to work though.

In any case, while this is true, power goes the shortest way and power corrupts. USA is the hegemon of our world and the center of our civilization, which is now united by American English language and American technologies, and what's the worst, American corporations. Much more power goes its way to corrupt it.

You know how bad people like to grease in shit the right tools for fixing the problem, preventively? That Putinist thing about "multi-polar" world means that they want to be a little hegemon too, and to have free reign in gray zones. But there is a similar sane point.

But really decentralization of tech research and production and standards is something we all need else we vanish. Right now we have one big Internet with one set of protocols, a handful of very complex software stacks everybody uses, and this situation should already be called a centralized one. Due to network effects and other, mostly with fake argument, kinds of pressure it doesn't make sense for most people to use parallel systems.

A de-facto conglomerate of companies, social groups, interests and ideas can be a monopolist too.