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SuperSpaceFan to [email protected]English • 2 years ago

Musk considers removing X platform from Europe over EU law - Insider

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Musk considers removing X platform from Europe over EU law - Insider

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SuperSpaceFan to [email protected]English • 2 years ago
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Elon Musk, owner of social media platform X, is considering removing the service formerly called Twitter from Europe in response to a new internet platform regulation in the region, news site Insider reported on Wednesday.
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  • @[email protected]
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    265•2 years ago

    He should remove it from all countries. What a rich dumbass.

  • @[email protected]
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    215•2 years ago

    What do we need to do to get him to remove it from America?

    • Pons_Aelius
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      Join the EU.

      Or pass their Digital Services Act and GDPR Laws in the USA.

      Sadly, for the USA, each option is about as likely as the other.

      • BolexForSoup
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        78•2 years ago

        Get New York and California to pass it. Might be enough. California has sort of done it lol

        • Nougat
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          45•2 years ago

          California is the EU of America.

      • @[email protected]
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        28•2 years ago

        I’d vote to create the EAU. I think there’s a real thirst for having some sanity over here.

        • @[email protected]
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          28•2 years ago

          As a EU citizen - no thanks, unless you get like ten seats in the EU parliament at most.

          • @[email protected]
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            34•2 years ago

            As a Californian, I am fully used to being horrifically underrepresented proportionally in national politics, danke. Tax our billionaires. Give us healthcare. Make us use public transportation and drive on better roads. Do your worst. I triple dog dare you.

            • PupBiru
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              24•2 years ago

              and as a citizen of a country other than the US, we’re very used to america being horrifically overrepresented in any sort of politics ever no matter what :p so swings and roundabouts i guess

              • @[email protected]
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                12•2 years ago

                Okay, good note.

                What if we made Canameximerica first and then joined?

                I mean, I’m feeling a vibe here.

                • PupBiru
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                  6•2 years ago

                  North American Union has a certain ring to it

            • @[email protected]
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              6•2 years ago

              Tax our billionaires.

              They’d probably bribe half the EU parliament and make it reduce the taxes in EU instead.

              • Pons_Aelius
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                7•2 years ago

                You are about 30 years too late…

                The double Irish with a Dutch sandwich is a tax avoidance technique employed by certain large corporations.

          • @[email protected]
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            3•2 years ago

            Honestly can’t blame you.

        • The Pantser
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          11•2 years ago

          Electronic Arts Union?

          • @[email protected]
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            5•2 years ago

            It’s a pun to discreetly signal that I welcome our new French overlords.

      • ianovic69
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        Cries from the UK.

        • @[email protected]
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          5•2 years ago

          I hear cries in British.

          “…and the tea is cold!”

          Yep.

      • bioemerl
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        Laws like these would thankfully get killed dead by the first amendment in the USA.

        Stop trying to kill the Internet with overbearing government regulations.

      • @[email protected]
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        1•2 years ago

        Or pass their Digital Services Act

        Not likely. This act would never pass the 1st amendment check.

    • @[email protected]
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      2•2 years ago

      Just join Mastodon and you will not have to wait for Elon.

  • Dr. Dabbles
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    164•2 years ago

    Do it. Go on, do it. A real man would do it.

    • Richard
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      25•2 years ago

      A real aerospace engineer would do it, c’mon Elon, you are one of those, aren’t you?

      • @[email protected]
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        15•2 years ago

        A real tesla cofounder would do it for sure.

        • Dr. Dabbles
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          1•2 years ago

          That’s founder to you! The court says so, so it must be true. I’ve had to go to court to prove I started the laundry, so it makes sense he had to too. 😆

    • @[email protected]
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      20•2 years ago

      The people who previously ran Twitter wouldn’t have done it. C’mon Elon, are you as scared as they would be?

    • @[email protected]
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      16•2 years ago

      Never happening, he doesn’t have the balls, Elon Musk is just a wittle bitty boy

    • @[email protected]
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      10•2 years ago

      I hear Zuck once threatened to pull Meta out of the EU too. Musk is a real man though. No joke, he can probably be goaded to do it, just like how he got baited into buying Twitter in the first place.

      • Dr. Dabbles
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        1•2 years ago

        We can only hope

    • Kokesh
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      7•2 years ago

      A REAL SMARTEST MAN would do it.

    • @[email protected]
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      7•2 years ago

      Anybody know what a real programmer would do?

      Ah, nevermind, he is too young for that.

  • @[email protected]
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    138•2 years ago

    Do it! Do it! Do it!

  • @[email protected]
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    109•2 years ago

    As a Brit, I’ve never been more angry at Brexit than right now, when we could have been on the cusp of losing access to Twitter. I’d have been free from the temptation to lurk occasionally, but noooooo, the fucking Tories had to go and “Get Brexit Done” and so we have to still live in a world where I feel compelled to go over there and gawk at the mess.

    Bastards.

  • SuperDuper
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    104•2 years ago

    Don’t threaten me with a good time!

  • @[email protected]
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    … and he believed, I mean, really believed, that would be some kind of threat!

    LMFAO!!

    • Bleeping Lobster
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      27•2 years ago

      I know right?! “Don’t threaten me with a good time, Elmo”

      • Teon
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        11•2 years ago

        #SpaceKaren is ultra clueless.

        • @[email protected]
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          1•2 years ago

          #CosmoKaren or #KosmoKaren

  • @[email protected]
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    85•2 years ago

    lol please do it.

  • @[email protected]
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    66•2 years ago

    Europe: “oh no! Anyway…” Me: “Do America next!”

  • @[email protected]
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    55•2 years ago

    pls dont get my hopes up

  • @[email protected]
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    51•2 years ago

    Don’t threaten us with a good time

  • @[email protected]
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    50•2 years ago

    Fucking do it.

    • @[email protected]
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      12•2 years ago

      I second this, fuck right off.

  • @[email protected]
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    49•2 years ago

    Please do, and I would like to add a few more (only 180 more) countries where you should quit…

  • @[email protected]
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    48•2 years ago

    Do it. It is perceived much differently than government blocking site, speaking from experience. When cenzorship agency blocks something, people seek ways to be there, when something pulls out of country, people say good riddance.

    • @[email protected]
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      23•2 years ago

      The irony is that the real losers if Twitter pulls out of the EU will be all the misinfo actors.

  • @[email protected]
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    44•2 years ago

    Oh no! anyway…

    • @[email protected]
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      14•2 years ago

      Me considers moving to EU after Twitter withdrawl.

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