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> ban Twitter Yes. Twitter is a lot less essential than you might think.
by zaik 4y ago
> ban Twitter
Yes. Twitter is a lot less essential than you might think.
- jansan 4y agoThey did not ban Telegram, so why should they ban Twitter?
- foepys 4y agoBecause Telegram complies with demands from law enforcement, despite what they want you to believe.
- somenameforme 4y agoEverything is. The balance between stay and remain within EU is not especially weighted towards remain in an increasing number of countries. The EU deciding to take any sort of a meaningful stance against free speech or free expression is, IMO, much more likely to push those still in the middle more towards leaving the EU than it is to push them towards remaining. It's an irrelevant act on its own weight, but there always comes a straw that breaks the camel's back. Now is just such an absurdly horrible time to do something that might agitate.
- hef19898 4y agoSo, banning twitter will directly lead to other countries leaving the EU because twitter is the only way of free speech that exists?
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 4y agoOne can only hope!
- collegeburner 4y ago"ban" twitter how? go to china and ask to license the great firewall? you could restrict it from operating a EU office or servers, you could restrict it from taking payment in euros, you could even restrict EU domiciled business from paying it but actually "banning" it is a much more authoritarian option.
- foepys 4y agoWhy should Twitter pay for infastructure for users that don't generate any revenue? That sounds like bad business.
- collegeburner 4y agowho says you can't still advertise to them? if twitter goes the "screw the eu" route they don't even have to follow gdpr so that makes for a competitive advantage.