[15:06] Social media platforms 'must respect EU rules' - McGrath
EU Commissioner for Democracy, Justice, the Rule of Law and Consumer Protection Michael McGrath said social media platforms must respect EU rules to ensure any risk of disinformation is minimised to limit its impact on democracy and elections.
https://www.rte.ie/news/politics/2025/0310/1501224-digital/
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"platforms must respect EU rules to ensure any risk of disinformation is minimised"
How best to cope with this on Mastodon?
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Yes. I would say so.
Yeah, you are probably right. I was a bit hoping one could just say, it's a lot of independent servers, so not a platform as such. But the politicians will probably ignore that anyway (if they deem Mastodon relevant in this discussion).
So far, I have not seen anything in my timeline that would have needed to be deleted.
If the issue would be bigger at one point, it would probably be a problem for the servers with a lot of users. So maybe one solution would 1/2
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be to splinter the server landscape into a lot of smaller ones. That would make it easier to control the content for the admins, and harder for a state censor to follow up on.
If we stay on the big servers with a lot of users, and the users don't behave, we would need fulltime admins that are funded somehow (either publicly, or by a company with a business model).
Personally, I hope the fediverse will stay niche for a while, to not deal with these challenges.
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