UK threatened with sanctions if Starmer bans X/Twitter

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/01/09/uk-threatened-with-sanctions-if-starmer-bans-x/

Another example of the corruption of billionaire tech companies on the American Government (and vice versa). They go as far as to ban european leaders' social media accounts and that of their families, and block their family from going to universities in America, wipe their bank accounts if they criticize the american government or if they try to protect users' and citizens' privacy... and even ban them from entering the USA, where the family of some of these European leaders live... o.o Or ICC members who investigate the US military also get prosecuted and blackmailed...

Fuq american imperialism and colonialism.

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TomMasz@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 222d (11 replies)

Fucking horrible.

wagesj45@fedia.io · -13 pts · 222d (10 replies)

Who cares, let the UK isolate more. Maybe blocking X is a good thing, I'm not wading into that conversation. But broadly the UK is clamping down on their Internet, so maybe they should just go full Great Chinese Firewall and get it over with. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de · 26 pts · 222d (3 replies)

I personally think the real issue here is the US threatening economic sanctions if anyone blocks Elon's child porn generator.

wagesj45@fedia.io · 2 pts · 222d (2 replies)

Yeah that's No Good™. We should let the UK do what it wants.

horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 222d (1 reply)

Within its own borders, yes?

wagesj45@fedia.io · 1 pts · 222d

Yes.

Ach@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 222d (2 replies)

"I'm not wading into that conversation."

Immediately wades into conversation.

wagesj45@fedia.io · 2 pts · 222d (1 reply)

About X being a toxic platform. My point was about UK censorship and isolation.

Ach@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 221d

"I'm not wading into that conversation."

Immediately wades into conversation.

swampwitch@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 222d

I'd rather we didn't.

It's irritating and is just moving people towards using VPNs.

Zexks@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 222d (1 reply)

Why do you support child porn being posted on twitter

wagesj45@fedia.io · -1 pts · 222d

Wild assumption, my dude.

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 222d

Ban xitter. There is no reason to let them operate lawlessly.

Quexotic@infosec.pub · 10 pts · 222d

If it wasn't yet clear to you that the corporations run this country...

fox2263@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 222d (1 reply)

It’s their biggest vector of right wing influence of course they will threaten.

Do Facebook next

Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 221d

For real

Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 6 pts · 222d

You will take the child ubdressing algorithm and you will like it

Drusas@fedia.io · 3 pts · 221d

Oh wow, Trump really does have tiny hands.