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EU absolutely is a country.

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[–] Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca 64 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I am American and I would support a ban on American social media in my country.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah. We hate our social media, and don't trust our government. Everyone else should absolutely ban our social media, yesterday, if not sooner.

Edit: And in response to lots of much more reasonable responses here, than mine: spot on!

The real wisdom is to ban our (United States) shitty social media's shitty behaviors, rather than playing platform bop-a-mole.

[–] murmelade@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

You shouldn't feel too bad or particularly exceptional, it's pretty common everywhere.
For example https://www.tv4.se/artikel/4A3ctxFCytb4R7kKQanI9H/sds-troll-factory-revealed-reporter-worked-undercover
There's hardly any big Swedish online communities where you don't run into their far-right talking points. r/Sweden is full of them and the largest Swedish forums is full of blatant racism and so is the Swedish community on Lemmy even. The pendulum is swinging hard right all across the "west"