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/
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.