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@mkljczk @benpate EU is invested in Mastodon and has been for years. I don't see any reasons why they wouldn't use that as a vehicle to push their way of control over social media, which they likely already want considering the arrests over making fun of politicians in Germany.

Before you could realistically push back against it and argue that it is unfeasible to do on the Fediverse. Now you won't be able to, because they paid for it to be implemented.

Of course this isn't limited to only EU, it's just an example. US or any other state/government could abuse this.

@benpate @mkljczk I guess your point is that they don't care when they push laws like I'm talking about and what are their consequences on places like Fediverse. My point is different and about that they are already making the building blocks to push those laws in a way that is hard to argue against outside of the obvious freedom of speech/censorship being bad/... Before you could argue that you cannot comply with such laws, now you can't argue that as they can point at Mastodon on how to do it.