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What's stopping another company - or Twitter itself - moving somewhere outside the US jurisdiction? I can't imagine it would be easy to regulate a service that

What's stopping another company - or Twitter itself - moving somewhere outside the US jurisdiction? I can't imagine it would be easy to regulate a service that isn't really location dependent.

quantummkv 6y ago
It would be very easy for the US in this case. Twitter's entire revenue stream is ad based. All the US has to do is to sanction any US company that is doing business with Twitter. Once the ad money dries up, Twitter would be as good as dead.
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- puranjay 6y ago
  Has something like this ever happened in the past? Wouldn't a friendlier political regime just reverse the sanctions?
  - quantummkv 6y ago
    It might reverse the sanctions, but that would be too late for twitter.
DarkWiiPlayer 6y ago
IT Companies have limited features to outside the EU countless times, search engines even locally censor search results here in some cases; I can imagine twitter might just do the same and offer a slightly different user experience inside the USA for legal reasons. --- EDIT: Of course they could also attempt to separate this fact-checking from their platform, for example by having another company build browser-extensions and endorse these extensions in some way. How far they could go with this is beyond my understanding of the legal system of the USA, but I imagine it should be doable to some extent.
- lazyjones 6y ago
  > IT Companies have limited features to outside the EU countless times, This only works if you actually block EU visitors. Otherwise, you still fall under EU jurisdiction if you appear to have or address users from the EU. It would probably affect you similarly if you have users from the US and are located outside of it. Enforcing fines is another matter, but the US would certainly have no problems there (see Kim Dotcom raid).
bcoates 6y ago
Too much of their revenue comes from the US. Big US advertisers would be incredibly skeeved out by advertising to US users via a US jurisdiction dodging middleman. They could survive just fine as a communication tool but not so much as a business.
- huhtenberg 6y ago
  Why would they be "skeeved out"? This makes no business sense whatsoever.
- puranjay 6y ago
  If US advertisers are comfortable advertising on TikTok, I can't see any reason why would be skeeved out by a largely American-owned company headquartered in Europe

What's stopping another company - or Twitter itself - moving somewhere outside the US jurisdiction? I can't imagine it would be easy to regulate a service that isn't really location dependent.

quantummkv 6y ago

It would be very easy for the US in this case. Twitter's entire revenue stream is ad based. All the US has to do is to sanction any US company that is doing business with Twitter. Once the ad money dries up, Twitter would be as good as dead.

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puranjay 6y ago
Has something like this ever happened in the past? Wouldn't a friendlier political regime just reverse the sanctions?
- quantummkv 6y ago
  It might reverse the sanctions, but that would be too late for twitter.

DarkWiiPlayer 6y ago

IT Companies have limited features to outside the EU countless times, search engines even locally censor search results here in some cases; I can imagine twitter might just do the same and offer a slightly different user experience inside the USA for legal reasons. --- EDIT: Of course they could also attempt to separate this fact-checking from their platform, for example by having another company build browser-extensions and endorse these extensions in some way. How far they could go with this is beyond my understanding of the legal system of the USA, but I imagine it should be doable to some extent.

lazyjones 6y ago
> IT Companies have limited features to outside the EU countless times, This only works if you actually block EU visitors. Otherwise, you still fall under EU jurisdiction if you appear to have or address users from the EU. It would probably affect you similarly if you have users from the US and are located outside of it. Enforcing fines is another matter, but the US would certainly have no problems there (see Kim Dotcom raid).

bcoates 6y ago

Too much of their revenue comes from the US. Big US advertisers would be incredibly skeeved out by advertising to US users via a US jurisdiction dodging middleman. They could survive just fine as a communication tool but not so much as a business.

huhtenberg 6y ago
Why would they be "skeeved out"? This makes no business sense whatsoever.
puranjay 6y ago
If US advertisers are comfortable advertising on TikTok, I can't see any reason why would be skeeved out by a largely American-owned company headquartered in Europe