Elon Musk is considering taking Twitter out of Europe amid EU compliance investigation
Elon Musk is considering taking Twitter out of Europe amid EU compliance investigation
As Twitter, renamed X, faces increased scrutiny in the EU and usage falls, Elon Musk has floated drastic action.
Yeah go on Elon, less fakenews in europe is a total win
The fake news, the misinformation, the amplifiers, the conspiracies, etc.. Losing Twitter would be a win. It would be wonderful to be able to crack down on some of the groups on things like Telegram and FB and WhatsApp. The blatant lies they spread. And lies about lies too.
My wife is part of a group like this. And over the past week, as you can imagine, the channel is rife with bullshit. They have posted fake things, then deleted them and claimed they were hacked to explain why the post was made or deleted. And people were like, "oh yeah sure that makes sense"
I think it would only be a win if euro-comm does the same for WhatsApp, otherwise the fakes just get less transparent. And maybe this is all part of authoritarian countries cutting the world off from european ideas, see my other comments.
Perhaps Mr. Musk would be receptive to the following message:
Hey Musk! You're not a bitch like Zuckerberg right? Show the world the man that you are and pull out of the EU like you mean it! I dare you! You won't if you got no balls!
Yeah Elmo, do it! You can show the whoel world how much more of a man you are! Do it!
Do it, do it, dot it!
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At this point every SNS app can just boycott EU in protest of the e2ee ban, and that'd only make a better world.
Facebook said the same thing a few years ago and here I am, waiting for them to go away
The fact that he says he’s “considering it” means he’s not going to do it.
Otherwise he would have just done it. This is a ploy to have his cake and eat it by issuing empty threats.
Eh, he "considered" buying Twitter and was forced to fulfill his agreement. Maybe we get lucky and it happens again.
Exactly, considering before acting hasn't really been his style since placing his bid on the company, shooting from the hip on the other hand...
Likely he will let it play out as long as possible. But eventually he'll have to. He's made it abundantly clear this far that he doesn't care about the money and complying with these laws wouldn't mean going against the whole reason he bought it in the first place.
Oh well, don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out...
Don't get your hopes up, kids. The cunt won't.
Yes please. This would further accelerate its fall from being considered the defacto internet town square.
It is the internet town square. Of a town run by the likes of Elon Musk. Badly neglected, crime taking place on the streets in broad daylight, hateful graffiti smeared all over the place, people taking shits right in the middle of town square, and nobody to clean it up nor stop the perpetrators, because the mayor has an odd liking for faeces.
Clearly nothing shady at all when your company makes threats (empty or otherwise) that they're gonna disappear from your country if you investigate them for incompliance.
Nothing to see here, just move along. /s
Just do it.
I think he is also toddler enough to do it.
That would genuinely be so good.
Please please please do
The thing is that it won't save him from the current inquiry. Once the EU rules that he is in breach of the current legislation (which he clearly is) he owes them a shitload of money. Sure, he chose to not pay(he is mad enough to try). But that would later on make the Twitter penalties his personal problem.
And that is painful even for a billionaire. No more skiing in the Swiss Alps, no more Saint Tropez in the summer, no Monaco. And none of his assets can ever return to the EU or EU friendly allies.
That would probably make him even more mad.
Which I like. A lot.
Well, he reguses to pay tons of open bills for months so I wouldn't even be especially surprised tbh!
Yeah, but it's a bit different when big players like the EU are behind it. That's a tad bit different to the numerous landlords and employees he fucked over.
But don't get me wrong, I am also sure that he won't pay simply because he is so much his own ass that be thinks he is above everything.
Which the EU Commission really hates and makes them go more after you .
That could be a nice drama to watch.
Please, do!
Good. Who needs this festering cesspit of propaganda, hate, and drivel anyway?
Nive! Now how can we get Zuckerberg to do the same?
Would be great!
Xitter, begone!
And nothing of value was lost.
I'm just here for the party
DO IT!!!!!
Oh no!
AnywaysDo it, man.
Yes, please!
Nothing would be lost.
Good riddance! 🇪🇺
Good riddance, fuck off
Lee Mack is looking fabulous these days
Bye! 👋
Yes please!
Yes please
Now this is a grave I'd happily dance on
You mean shit on!
Oh no xD
DO IT
I hope promises
Oh no! Anyway –
Good riddance ❤️
Fucking good
Props to the Commission to get Musk to take out his own trash
Suppose this happens - his stated dream of global town square dead - except it was already because most people in the world live neither in Europe nor US. China has wechat behind their great firewall, russophone areas have vkontact and telegram and their alternate reality, meanwhile, in much of the rest of the world I fear Meta dominates (even in francophone Europe, and Africa so I'm told).
So - forcing europeans to rethink could give the fediverse an opportunity - but it also hasn't penetrated much globally, the real challenge is to broaden beyond english speakers and north-atlantic. How to do this? One issue is fediverse is best on desktop, while most people in developing countries are using small screens. But it's not just about tech - there are big japanese fedi-communities with little interaction with the west, presumably due to language barrier.
A decentralised system could even thrive in authoritarian states, if there is some way to protect server admins. I recall twitter seemed to play a key role during the Arab spring, what's the replacement ?To go a bit further, if you like conspiracies, maybe this was the whole point - instructions from the Kremlin, and big cash from Saudis inter alia...- to break the concept of shared global discussion, noting twitter also played a key role in western support for Ukraine too. They are late - that ship sailed, but we don't yet have another, be careful what you wish for.
Free speech platform for the whole world
Neither of those will be true in the end
Well, the "speech platform" part is sort of true. The "free" part isn't, the "for the world" part certainly isn't. the "whole world" part is only true if you correct the "for" to "against".
Oh just f*** off so.
Take it out of the US too.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In recent weeks Elon Musk has suggested Twitter could stop being accessible in Europe in order to avoid new regulation enacted by the European Commission.
The Tesla billionaire, who acquired Twitter, now called X, a year ago for $44 billion, has discussed simply removing the app's availability in the region, or blocking users in the European Union from accessing it, the person said.
"That's part of the reason he gutted international teams the first chance he got," one of the people familiar said, referring to some of the thousands of employees Musk has laid off or fired since taking over the company.
A winnowing down of Twitter's international presence came up again earlier this year, when Musk decided to close nearly all of the company's roughly two dozen global offices, including most in Europe and India, as well as those in Australia, Africa, and South Korea.
Although Musk has yet to pull X out of any country, essentially no employees remain in Europe, one of the people said, as offices in Paris, Madrid, and Berlin are closed.
Although Musk has met at least twice this year with Commissioner Breton about what X needs to do to comply with the DSA, he's lost patience with the situation, one of the people familiar said.
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Piss off musk.
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What the fuck is Twitter?
X was formerly called so (/s)
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Just shut it down everywhere. Sunk cost.
Why stop there, he should take it out of the US too
