Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe

• DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What do you mean by operating in the EU? Twitter is run from America

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  • towerful@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    And it’s fine to continue to operate in the US.
    But if it doesn’t abide by EU laws then it can’t operate in the EU.

    America doesn’t set the worlds laws

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    • iii@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      In practice, we could sever the connection between EU internet and the rest of the internet.

      Maybe whitelist a set of ideas that are allowed to pass through the great eu firewall.

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      • HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Or maybe, just maybe, fine companies that commit criminal acts.

        There really is a fine line between turning into an authoritarian regime and doing basic police work, right?

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  • jwt@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    operate in != run from

    If you want an apt example of a company ‘run from’ America not allowed to ‘operate in’ another jurisdiction:
    …m.wikipedia.org/…/Blocking_of_Twitter_in_Brazil

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    • iii@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Apparently, it works by fining users that visit the site. See chapter “Blocking”.

      How nice, a government that puts criminal penalties on it’s citizens reading the (according to them) wrong things.

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