Last week, erstwhile we watched a performance prepared for the president of Ukraine in the White home by the American administration, there were conscious voices that our – i.e. European – precedence should not necessarily be to choose the most sympathetic patron among the 3 US, China or Russia. Instead, we request to work out a way to limit the free movement of Facebook and X in the European Union.
Jacek K. Sokołowski, author of last year's book, put it more precisely. Transnation. Poles in search of political form, who wrote (on X): "The current state of Fejsbuk and Twitter is that all this crap would be best just to block Europe."
And it's not about the "censorship" that he tried. Force Magdalene Biejat Bogdan Rymanowski, not about restoring standards or hard, protracted negotiations. alternatively to immediately restrict the activities of abroad agents – and this, as we know, a position connecting over divisions.
Tango with phalange (and chalcon)
As a user of both services, I can add any observations to Sokołowski's constitution. X appeared to be a platform dominated by pornbots and accounts funded by the FSB long before Elon Musk actively joined the AfD campaignand all another performance of J.D. Vance wiping his mouth with free speech only accelerated the transformation of the service into dysfunctional, clumsy anti-Ukrainian propaganda base.
On Facebook, it's a small bit more fun – generated by artificial intelligence, moving photos of non-existent centennials baking bread, farmers with a shackle and older men waiting for a suspended dinner get thousands of laymen and supporting comments. Graphics frequently hidden behind political staff intercepted or "independent" troll farms with spiritual fanpages and emery groups, whose function in the service was strengthened a fewer years ago, are just a game of propaganda brainwashing that awaits us in the months preceding the presidential election.
X so serves young angry, Facebook – fall of life, making users content yet (and only seemingly) unrelated to politics. But – and here again we quote Sokolovski – it is not that all voice matters: “You are stupid and without it. Soshials are to fool the political elite and decision-makers so that they believe that what they see in the soshials are their voters and that outside the soshials of another planet there is no other.”
To make decision makers believe that the planet exists exclusively in social media, they cannot be marginalized by these media. If Musk had cut Tusk's coverage overnight, all the fraud behind the erstwhile Twitter would have become transparent and had him look at the system's mechanisms. Therefore, the Prime Minister enjoys the comparative sympathy of the American algorithm so far, he shoots popular, comic rolls on X and TikTok and scowls his subordinates for not being eager to discuss on the site of modern Joseph Goebbels.
"It is unacceptable that politicians present do not have their social media" – heard KO politicians from the boss, who lives in an illusion akin to the hero of an old joke, who stands in front of a vending device with drinks, throws in more coins and can not leave the machine, shouting to the hurrying people in line: "Are you crazy? I inactive win!’ However, the feeling that Tusk, Myrcha and Sikorski can “play” an algorithm is completely narcissistic and naive.
Nevertheless, it continues and drives Polish politicians, who increasingly call press conferences and are unduly worried about relations with the media – even if they are financed from the State Treasury. It is not known why we must learn about the actions of the Polish authorities through a private American company managed by Fascist car dealer. Looking at the current state of diplomatic relations, I might as well look for reports of the Polish regulation of law on Weibo.
Act of disobedience to the Act
While almost everyone knew that the fresh announcement of changes to the Facebook moderation was a tribute paid by Mark Zuckerberg to the fresh American ruler, the press reports seldom reported that he had actually denounced the provisions of the Digital Services Act (DSA), which began to apply in the European Union only a year ago, on 17 February 2024.
The paper was adopted, among others, in consequence to well known at least since the Cambridge Analytics affair examples of polarising users, influencing the results of democratic elections, kid abuse and lynching. It was not meaningless that the European Council voted on the adoption of the DSA in October 2022 – that is, after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The intent of the provisions contained in the DSA was to address social threats, strengthen supervision, combat illegal content, identify entrepreneurs and implement transparency measures. It takes about 10 minutes in any social average to find evidence that “deregulation” in this respect on any U.S. site has completely gotten out of control.
American subcaster Jim Stewartson says Europe should block all companies of Muska operating on our continent. This would most likely mean a legislative and diplomatic way through torment, but banishing X could be a good start to a beautiful adventure. As Thierry Breton said in January, erstwhile interior marketplace Commissioner in the European Commission, block X is ‘legally possible’.
The Brazilian ultimate Court utilized a akin possibility, introducing a block of X last year, after many months of tension between the authorities of the country and the platform, caused, among others, by the function of X in winding up riots after the failure of Jair Bolsonaro in the presidential election. Unfortunately, the ban only lasted a small over a period – but the platform paid $5.2 million for its attempts to circumvent it. It's not much, but it's inactive more than Google's going to put artificial intelligence to the Poles in the next 5 years.
Will Poles love it?
Of course, the decision to go to war with Musk and his platform will not only attract the enthusiastic millions who will unite and start playing the EU goal alternatively of walking on the leash of the richest man in the world. opposition would be large – and supported by a propaganda device of the platforms themselves.
Mentzen, Fogiel and Gierty, like Tusk, are convinced that in this race they have a head start due to their persuasion, charisma and superb strategies, and that their voters will be happy to take a spin on “free speech”, “censorship” and “eurocoholchosis”. However, somewhat little glued politicians and politicians should start to pay attention to the fact that this is simply a fixed sum game in which the vending device wields and programs businessmen close to the hostile Europe of the president of the United States.
Perhaps it is worth thanking Jarosław Kaczyński that he has anointed a beautiful head for his presidential candidate, whose algorithms may not help, and wait to build an anti-muscle coalition with Germany, France or Sweden until the post-presidential election period, which the possible offensive would undoubtedly influence.
However, avoiding discussion on this subject would deprive Poland of 1 of the best chances to deepen integration at European level in a fresh situation in global policy. Both candidate Trzaskowski, erstwhile Minister of Administration and Digitization, and current head of the department liable for digitization They surely realize that this is simply a solution that does not require monstrous costs, as in the case of turbo-speed in the arms race, but protects us from fascist cyberdisposal, which would otherwise undoubtedly come.
