Musk is told his platform, now known as X, must comply with new laws designed to combat fake news and Russian propaganda

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    1 year ago

    Realize? Yes. Holding the thinnest shred of hope for some forgotten treaty agreement? Also yes.

    I’d also settle for any country telling him to fuck right off with any of his business if he continues to be a bag of shit. That might also work.

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      1 year ago

      That’s probably what will end up happening. But how? Is the EU going to ban Twitter traffic like China does?

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        Traffic, no, EU countries generally don’t do that.

        What’s very much possible is kicking Twitter off the internal market, meaning they couldn’t sell adspace to European companies, possibly also multinationals wanting to do business in Europe (and that’s pretty much every single one), as well as DNS-level blocks. Sure those are easy to circumvent, just don’t use your ISP’s DNS, but for a company like Twitter it’s still devastating.

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        If I had to guess it would get DNS blocked by all European providers, that’s not a effective ban if you want to deny access but it’s a death sentence for a buisness!