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Over 60 German and Austrian universities and research institutions announced their exit from Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter), citing the platform’s promotion of right-wing populist content and its incompatibility with democratic and scientific values.

This follows Germany’s Federal Court of Justice and trade unions leaving the platform.

The German government is also debating a withdrawal, expressing concerns over X’s polarizing effect on political discourse.

The departure comes after Musk’s public support for Germany’s far-right AfD party and a live talk with its leader Alice Weidel ahead of upcoming elections.

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    6 months ago

    this is just like what mark zuckerberg said about all of europe having “too much censorship” and “making innovation impossible”. but i guess if germany really cared about being unbiased they would have moved all their institutions to texas by now or something.

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      6 months ago

      Where is the innovation? Those companies just buy other companies they don’t innovate they buy

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        6 months ago

        they innovate new ways of performing regulatory capture and new ways of monopolizing industries. rest assured that this is all a good thing somehow

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          6 months ago

          And are we sure these monopolies are located in germany and not say the US?

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            no the monopolies are all in the US as evidenced by mark zuckerberg, in his infinite wisdom, saying that “europe makes it impossible to innovate anything there”