Seems like this has some teeth at least. Elon usually doesn’t budge at these sorts of legislation changes but this cleary has him a little nervous at least.
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Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social 1 week ago
With US oligarchs “threats” and discussions do not work. Only action and the type of action that hurts them personally.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social 1 week ago
Perhaps, but if anything they should have used this as a cover to ban twitter. I do not find American style ostentatious “freedom polemics” to be convincing, but on top of that Musk has been found to meddle in local politics to benefit the far right and promote UK criminals.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 1 week ago
Cynical take: They only did it openly to draw attention to it & pull in more subscribers. Because you can be sure Xhitter’s clientele loves that feature.
“image generation and editing are currently limited to paying subscribers,” a change from the previous setup in which anyone could summon the system by tagging it in a post and asking for a picture.
fonix232@fedia.io 1 week ago
Threats do work when delivered properly. See how the EU forced Apple into moving to USB-C or opening up sideloading/alternate app markets.
You just need to have weight to throw around behind your threats. The EU has weight. The UK alone? Hah.