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"In Europe, the bird will fly by our rules."
by tibbydudeza 4y ago
"In Europe, the bird will fly by our rules."
- unknownaccount 4y agoLet’s see how popular that policy is once they make the site completely unavailable in Europe.
- uniqueuid 4y agoGiven that approximately 5% of Germans use Twitter, I don't think many people would care or even notice.
- ohgodplsno 4y agoGod, stop, don't give me that much hope. Elon blowing 44 billions on a site worth maybe 5, before making it unavailable to half its userbase ? As well as reducing the amount of russian propaganda (that Elon does like to regurgitate all on his own anyways) that can be spewed on social networks ? This could be the biggest waste of money since the Tumblr acquisition, I'd love to help set records. Can we nuke Facebook on the way too ?
- synu 4y agoHonestly that would be wonderful
- speedgoose 4y agoIt’s not like twitter is rocket science. And Europe is alright at rocket science anyway. It twitter abandons the European market, people will use something else.
- amadeuspagel 4y ago> It twitter abandons the European market, people will use something else. Yes, and then be disconnected from the rest of the world.
- MrMan 4y agohaha funny.
- speedgoose 4y agoThankfully the world doesn’t run in Twitter.
- vesinisa 4y agoFacebook also touted this. But they would never do it, as it would almost immediately spawn a competing copycat substitute service that would receive a massive userbase for free at its inception, risking creating a formidable competitor. Or even worse - no substitute service would even spring up, giving a strong signal that people don't actually need the service FB/Twitter offer at all! They only stand to loose for exiting a market as a protest.
- pessimizer 4y agoIf this is a reference to twitter following European law, I don't see why they wouldn't. People's complaints about Twitter moderation aren't about the law, they're about governments being able to indirectly make de facto, unconstitutional law through either informal demands and threats to, or overly chummy and profitable relationships with, media companies. It's not hard to figure out why media and payment consolidation and monopolies are allowed/encouraged. They're ideal for government. I don't understand how orchestrated bans across media companies and payment processors can be allowed when price-fixing isn't. They're behaving as trusts.