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Legal concerns = It can't work without violating rudimentary privacy and tracking restrictions mandated by the EU.

• true_religion 3y ago
  It doesn’t work in China for the same reason.
  • ElectronBadger 3y ago
    I *highly* doubt that the reasons are the same for EU and China.
    • withinboredom 3y ago
      I suspect the reasons are the same (privacy), but the motivation behind them to be quite different…
  • thih9 3y ago
    Note that while it's officially banned, there are ways to access it and people are doing that. > Threads, launched on Wednesday evening US time, already ranked fourth among free social media apps in Apple’s iOS store in China > The app has gained traction even though users based in China must use virtual private networks to access the platform. Source: https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3226962/metas-twitter-rival-threads-tops-chinas-app-store-despite-great-firewall-censorship https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3226962/metas-twi...