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The EU banning Twitter would be the most fun habbening since election night 2016
Musk should ban the EU instead, and redirect to a page with Thierry Breton's dox on it and an explanation that it's his fault.
The problem, as well, is that compromising for the EU, which is such a huge block, means major websites may just incorporate the EU-level new standard globally because it's easier and more restrictive policies are still compliant in the US anyway, and if enough of that happens it potentially makes it easier for American rights to be eroded by the back door too (see the trans lobbying tactics in the UK (archive) for a similar attempt at normalising something before trying to make it law). America has by far and away the best free speech laws in the world and we'll all suffer, globally, if those get chipped away.
Some major news sites (and a lot of smaller local ones) just outright block the EU already because it's too onerous to comply with the GDPR and other fascist EU cuntery.
 
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And I hope that Elon continues to tell them "no, screw off." It's as others have said: the EU would be shooting themselves in their own foot if they deprive their media propagandists continued use of Twitter. Or, perhaps they'll initiate some screwy double standard by ONLY allowing approved EU-affiliated sources on Twitter but thumb their noses at the Yuropoor normies who are forcibly shut out of access.
 
All of this might be just some buildup for some further EU anti-speech action, and I will be really mad if that's gonna happen, even though I am not affected as I am using a VPN.
They're probably going to use it as a justification to "harmonise" hate-speech legislation across the union, likely taking Germany's legal frameworks as the model for a new directive. IIRC, something along those lines has already been in the works for a while.
 
They're probably going to use it as a justification to "harmonise" hate-speech legislation across the union, likely taking Germany's legal frameworks as the model for a new directive. IIRC, something along those lines has already been in the works for a while.
Let's hope not.
My speech (which I consider moderate) is already probably borderline on what would pass as illegal.
I was basically a law abiding citizen my entire life, I am not liking this "let's make behaviors and speech that were legal for millennia illegal" drive.
When a totalitarian government tried to impose itself too hard over us, we chimped out in quite the bloody manner and dealt with it. I have some doubts that the current generation is able to replicate such an intense desire to live more freely as we once did, things have gotten cucked and lazy.
 
Wuh-oh. Apple didn't get on top of it fast enough. Now Zuck complaining about apple lockin.


I sure hope Lorenz, Collins, Esqueer, etc continue to clamor companies use their anticompetitive practices to silence others.
Kind of fascinating to see one tech giant going knives out at another tech giant trying to be knives out to yet another tech giant. Methinks all of them may be a bit envious of what Musk is doing for Twitter and want to drag him back into the crab bucket, but only Facebook is dragging Apple back in the bucket.
 
Methinks all of them may be a bit envious of what Musk is doing for Twitter and want to drag him back into the crab bucket, but only Facebook is dragging Apple back in the bucket.
That's what it is, the Big Tech version of Crab Bucket Syndrome. All of them caved into the woke censorship bullshit and they can't stand it that someone is not only saying no but undoing part of the censorship. They fear their users making the same demands on them: "Hey, if Twitter can say fuck the censorship, why can't you?"

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Kind of fascinating to see one tech giant going knives out at another tech giant trying to be knives out to yet another tech giant. Methinks all of them may be a bit envious of what Musk is doing for Twitter and want to drag him back into the crab bucket, but only Facebook is dragging Apple back in the bucket.
It's not envy. Why have apple, google, etc. been allowed to operate in such an anticompetitive manner for so long. Who would have regulated them, and what could tech have been giving them that was more valuable than money?

Tech was giving some in the government policies that the government couldn't constitutionally implement otherwise. They were paying for protection with censorship.
 
Wuh-oh. Apple didn't get on top of it fast enough. Now Zuck complaining about apple lockin.


I sure hope Lorenz, Collins, Esqueer, etc continue to clamor companies use their anticompetitive practices to silence others.
The media made up this bullshit about Apple out of thin air. The media does this shit all the time. Apple should have responded quickly, but they haven’t even made a formal statement. We got the information from Musk after he had a conversation with Tim Cook directly.

Facebook and Apple are direct enemies, even moreso than Microsoft was with Apple. Now Zuck is crying about monopolies because his shitty Secondlife clone sucks ass.
 
The media made up this bullshit about Apple out of thin air. The media does this shit all the time. Apple should have responded quickly, but they haven’t even made a formal statement. We got the information from Musk after he had a conversation with Tim Cook directly.

Facebook and Apple are direct enemies, even moreso than Microsoft was with Apple. Now Zuck is crying about monopolies because his shitty Secondlife clone sucks ass.
idk how people still take Zuckerberg seriously after he got laughed at when his "facebook money" idea was shot down by the government. Dude lives in his own make-believe world.
 
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