autotldr@lemmings.world
on 19 Oct 2023 01:35
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Oct 18 (Reuters) - Elon Musk, owner of social media platform X, is considering removing the service formerly called Twitter from Europe in response to a new internet platform regulation in the region, news site Insider reported on Wednesday.
The billionaire has discussed removing the app’s availability in the region, or blocking users in the European Union from accessing it, a person familiar with the company told the publication.
The European Union in August adopted the Digital Services Act (DSA), which sets forth rules for preventing the spread of harmful content, banning or limiting certain user-targeting practices, and sharing some internal data with regulators and associated researchers, among other things.
X did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
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badbytes@lemmy.world
on 19 Oct 2023 01:37
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He should remove it from all countries. What a rich dumbass.
jmd_akbar@aussie.zone
on 19 Oct 2023 01:48
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Please do, and I would like to add a few more (only 180 more) countries where you should quit…
Uniquitous@lemmy.one
on 19 Oct 2023 01:52
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What do we need to do to get him to remove it from America?
Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
on 19 Oct 2023 02:04
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SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml
on 19 Oct 2023 02:24
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I’d vote to create the EAU. I think there’s a real thirst for having some sanity over here.
ThePantser@lemmy.world
on 19 Oct 2023 02:35
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Electronic Arts Union?
SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml
on 19 Oct 2023 02:45
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It’s a pun to discreetly signal that I welcome our new French overlords.
antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 19 Oct 2023 03:05
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As a EU citizen - no thanks, unless you get like ten seats in the EU parliament at most.
SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml
on 19 Oct 2023 03:17
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As a Californian, I am fully used to being horrifically underrepresented proportionally in national politics, danke. Tax our billionaires. Give us healthcare. Make us use public transportation and drive on better roads. Do your worst. I triple dog dare you.
PupBiru@kbin.social
on 19 Oct 2023 03:23
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and as a citizen of a country other than the US, we’re very used to america being horrifically overrepresented in any sort of politics ever no matter what :p so swings and roundabouts i guess
SatanicNotMessianic@lemmy.ml
on 19 Oct 2023 03:44
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Okay, good note.
What if we made Canameximerica first and then joined?
The people who previously ran Twitter wouldn’t have done it. C’mon Elon, are you as scared as they would be?
ricdeh@lemmy.world
on 19 Oct 2023 07:18
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A real aerospace engineer would do it, c’mon Elon, you are one of those, aren’t you?
topinambour_rex@lemmy.world
on 19 Oct 2023 08:20
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A real tesla cofounder would do it for sure.
drdabbles@lemmy.world
on 19 Oct 2023 16:35
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That’s founder to you! The court says so, so it must be true. I’ve had to go to court to prove I started the laundry, so it makes sense he had to too. 😆
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world
on 19 Oct 2023 08:03
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Anybody know what a real programmer would do?
Ah, nevermind, he is too young for that.
ano_ba_to@sopuli.xyz
on 19 Oct 2023 10:19
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I hear Zuck once threatened to pull Meta out of the EU too. Musk is a real man though. No joke, he can probably be goaded to do it, just like how he got baited into buying Twitter in the first place.
drdabbles@lemmy.world
on 19 Oct 2023 16:33
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We can only hope
TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 19 Oct 2023 05:40
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Yipeeeeee
AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 19 Oct 2023 05:43
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Please do so thanks
Roflmasterbigpimp@lemmy.world
on 19 Oct 2023 05:58
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Come on man do it! DO IT!
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
on 19 Oct 2023 06:42
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Musk threatens to kill off Twitter in the EU, and all the Europeans are going “hooray! Finally we can forget about that cesspool and go on with our lives”
Kinda reminds you of that scene from lethal weapons, Musk is the jumper, Riggs the Europeans and Murtaugh the Twitter employees.
fiah@discuss.tchncs.de
on 19 Oct 2023 06:00
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oh no, the huge manatee
DJDarren@thelemmy.club
on 19 Oct 2023 06:25
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As a Brit, I’ve never been more angry at Brexit than right now, when we could have been on the cusp of losing access to Twitter. I’d have been free from the temptation to lurk occasionally, but noooooo, the fucking Tories had to go and “Get Brexit Done” and so we have to still live in a world where I feel compelled to go over there and gawk at the mess.
Bastards.
nostradiel@lemmy.world
on 19 Oct 2023 06:27
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So apart from paywall, we now have even a singupwall, fck that. Could you please next time just prntscrn whole article? It’s matter of 10s…
morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de
on 19 Oct 2023 07:24
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Musk considers removing X platform from Europe over EU law - Insider
Reuters
October 19, 20232:36 AM GMT+2Updated 7 hours ago
Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk attends the VivaTech conference in Paris
Elon Musk, Chief Executive Officer of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of X, formerly known as Twitter, attends the Viva Technology conference dedicated to innovation and startups at the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre in Paris, France, June 16, 2023.
Oct 18 (Reuters) - Elon Musk, owner of social media platform X, is considering removing the service formerly called Twitter from Europe in response to a new internet platform regulation in the region, news site Insider reported on Wednesday.
The billionaire has discussed removing the app’s availability in the region, or blocking users in the European Union from accessing it, a person familiar with the company told the publication.
The European Union in August adopted the Digital Services Act (DSA), which sets forth rules for preventing the spread of harmful content, banning or limiting certain user-targeting practices, and sharing some internal data with regulators and associated researchers, among other things.
X did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Reporting by Yuvraj Malik in Bengaluru; Editing by Devika Syamnath
wolfylow@lemmy.world
on 19 Oct 2023 06:38
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Please please please please do so
Fedizen@lemmy.world
on 19 Oct 2023 06:41
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lol please do it.
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
on 19 Oct 2023 06:43
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CHIIIIIIICKEN! Bork bork bork!
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
on 19 Oct 2023 06:45
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Great, now do tesla too. Stupid Tesla chargers popping up around my country. I’ve got an aging nissan and want chademo damnit!
IHaveTwoCows@lemm.ee
on 19 Oct 2023 06:51
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Dont be a pussy, Elmo; drop the EU!!
diviledabit@lemmy.world
on 19 Oct 2023 06:58
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The DSA would nullify the entire point of buying twitter, forcing him to reveal exactly how he is using the platform to further his goals.
In addition to the liability exemptions, the DSA would introduce a wide-ranging set of new obligations on platforms, including some that aim to disclose to regulators how their algorithms work, while other obligations would create transparency on how decisions to remove content are taken
Reptorian@lemmy.zip
on 19 Oct 2023 06:59
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I’d love it too. I actually wonder why news orgs, NGOs and governments don’t already run their own federated servers for employees.
Darkhoof@lemmy.world
on 19 Oct 2023 11:47
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They can actually moderate their boards and reach a really wide audience. I believe it’s because most news organizations barely have resources available. But governments should definitely be present.
I’m not referring to discussion forums, but employees of news orgs being protected from capricious asshole owners of social media platforms. e.g. CNN’s Donnie O’Sullivan was banned from Twitter for reporting on Elon Musk’s war with flight tracking accounts. He wasn’t the only journalist either. Or news orgs as a whole not receiving media ticks or being tagged negatively (e.g. called US government sponsored news site) because (again) the owner of the network is an asshole.
kemsat@lemmy.world
on 19 Oct 2023 09:52
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Do it. It is perceived much differently than government blocking site, speaking from experience. When cenzorship agency blocks something, people seek ways to be there, when something pulls out of country, people say good riddance.
The irony is that the real losers if Twitter pulls out of the EU will be all the misinfo actors.
InternetTubes@lemmy.world
on 19 Oct 2023 11:03
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They can still move to whatever substitutes it, like the fediverse, but that also likely means more pressure to make it better, too.
variaatio@sopuli.xyz
on 19 Oct 2023 10:00
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Don’t threaten us with good time, Elon.
Also no way he is going through. He is way too much in financial hole to give up European market. Like Google or Meta, sure they have the financial standing to maybe pull such move and survive.
Xitter? They need every visitor and account they can have globally to even think about staying viable.
Empty bluster and pointless empty bluster, since EU would just go “fine. Our continental economy or prosperity doesn’t depend on your social media company. Social media isn’t a critical industry, so we are just fine with you leaving. Plus there is 10 others like you anyway”.
You can’t threaten people with something that doesn’t damage them and heck might be seen as benefit.
sbrodolino_21@lemmy.world
on 20 Oct 2023 11:06
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Does xitter read like shitter?
Treczoks@lemmy.world
on 19 Oct 2023 10:00
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Looks like the European laws actually protects us digitally!
sndrtj@feddit.nl
on 19 Oct 2023 10:03
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Good riddance.
fosforus@sopuli.xyz
on 19 Oct 2023 10:04
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Dude thinks he’s so important that he can bully others into getting what he wants just by threatening to leave. Here’s hoping the EU calls him on it. What do they have to lose? Twitter brings no value to anyone other than Musk these days.
InternetTubes@lemmy.world
on 19 Oct 2023 11:01
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Please do it and convince Steve Huffman as well. The fediverse always welcomes more users.
HerbalGamer@lemm.ee
on 19 Oct 2023 11:04
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DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone
on 19 Oct 2023 12:24
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Oh no! anyway…
Not_Alec_Baldwin@lemmy.world
on 19 Oct 2023 13:48
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Me considers moving to EU after Twitter withdrawl.
Gekoloniseerd@lemmy.world
on 19 Oct 2023 12:28
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Bye.
redcalcium@lemmy.institute
on 19 Oct 2023 12:48
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Maybe the theory about the Saudis financing Musk to buy Twitter in order to kill it is not too far fetched afterall.
3TH4Li4@feddit.ch
on 19 Oct 2023 12:50
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Here’s hoping Zuck will do the same! Garbage misinformation platforms, with all around lack of moderation, and value.
Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi
on 19 Oct 2023 13:41
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Man, now I wish the UK never left…
Nevermore9197@lemmy.world
on 19 Oct 2023 14:44
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This is what did it? This is what made you wish?
Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi
on 19 Oct 2023 23:25
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Nah. I was being hyperbolic.
Resol@lemmy.world
on 19 Oct 2023 13:51
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Meta might as well ban the usage of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and of course the Meta Quest headsets from being used in the EU. Oh, and all Google products as well (maybe except YouTube). We are so close to a new tomorrow.
I guess EU citizens are just gonna move to Norway if they wanna use those services (I’d assume VPN usage would be blocked as well)
I_like_cats@lemmy.one
on 19 Oct 2023 14:56
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It would be the greatest news I’ve heard in 2 years if that where to happen
quackers@lemmy.blahaj.zone
on 19 Oct 2023 20:08
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Honestly, without these monopolies, yes it will suck for a bit but it would allow us to essentially rebuild the internet. It sounds exciting more than anything.
If the EU blocks anything, thats a different story. The deal now is that companies are vaguely threatening to leave because they dont wanna deal with our laws.
Unless there are some Netflix titles exclusive to the Norwegian version of Netflix, I don’t wanna use a VPN.
joel_feila@lemmy.world
on 19 Oct 2023 15:12
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Don’t be a cock tease elin just pull out already
CosmicCleric@lemmy.world
on 19 Oct 2023 15:29
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Elon Musk, owner of social media platform X, is considering removing the service formerly called Twitter from Europe in response to a new internet platform regulation in the region, news site Insider reported on Wednesday.
Lucky them.
Desistance@lemmy.world
on 19 Oct 2023 15:52
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Do it, coward
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
on 19 Oct 2023 16:40
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Weren’t they already threatening to ban it in the first place?
This has major “You can’t fire me cause I quit!” energy
SignorPao@lemmy.world
on 19 Oct 2023 16:53
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Please, please, please, do it
Honytawk@lemmy.zip
on 19 Oct 2023 17:23
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Apparently, this news is not true, sadly.
Elmo said so himself on Xitter according to a Belgian news site.
Couldn’t verify it though since I don’t go on xitter.
Both (Sync and Boost) are, in my opinion, the best Lemmy apps. An extensive set of features and customisation, lovely interface, they are 5 star products.
Nacktmull@lemm.ee
on 20 Oct 2023 12:50
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Please do!
ninekeysdown@lemmy.world
on 20 Oct 2023 12:55
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Translation; I’m going to throw a temper tantrum because the you’re being mean to me after, someone who totally is not me, ruined my plaything that I was, forced to, buy.
Also I am totally wearing clothes, you’re just too poor to see them.
EU is starting to more heavily censor things. Social media that is “terrorist sympathizing”, “misinformation”, or “pro-hamas protests” when in reality what they’re doing is cutting off access to information from the other side.
Even on Twitter we’re seeing certain accounts get banned. I followed a guy who’s part of Hezbollah that would give on the ground updates. He got banned. Many other accounts have too.
Is this what we want? An iron curtain around the internet? So we can’t see the other side and they can’t see us? It’s a dangerous path we’re walking towards.
ninekeysdown@lemmy.world
on 22 Oct 2023 02:33
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I’m not so sure it’s a dangerous path. There should be limits on what people can say.
I’m saying this as someone who up until the pandemic was very much against limits in ANY speech. There should be consequences for spreading hate and misinformation.
I’m aware that it’s a VERY dangerous and slippery slope too.
have no idea what the right amount of limits even looks like. I’m not an expert by any stretch of the imagination. What I do know is that what we have now isn’t working.
What I do know is that what we have now isn’t working.
Why isn’t it working? What is the harm in people seeing beheadings? Reading the media of the opposite side? We start outlawing “misinformation” and the only information allowed is the official state narrative. People are so quick to forget that governments lie all the time. Weapons of mass destruction was an elaborate lie perpetuated by both governments and the media. When the US blew up a hospital in 2014~2015 in Afghanistan, they immediately denied it and blamed in on the Afghanis. There’s multiple examples of Israel killing journalists or bombing civilians and then lying about it.
We live in a post-truth age. Outlawing one lie simply allows the other to proliferate more easily. It’s dangerous and we’re looking more and more like authoritarian China every passing day.
People should have the right to decide for themselves what sort of media they want to consume. They should be able to decide for themselves what lies they want to believe.
LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world
on 16 Nov 2023 07:30
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Oct 18 (Reuters) - Elon Musk, owner of social media platform X, is considering removing the service formerly called Twitter from Europe in response to a new internet platform regulation in the region, news site Insider reported on Wednesday.
The billionaire has discussed removing the app’s availability in the region, or blocking users in the European Union from accessing it, a person familiar with the company told the publication.
The European Union in August adopted the Digital Services Act (DSA), which sets forth rules for preventing the spread of harmful content, banning or limiting certain user-targeting practices, and sharing some internal data with regulators and associated researchers, among other things.
X did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
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He should remove it from all countries. What a rich dumbass.
Please do, and I would like to add a few more (only 180 more) countries where you should quit…
What do we need to do to get him to remove it from America?
Join the EU.
Or pass their Digital Services Act and GDPR Laws in the USA.
Sadly, for the USA, each option is about as likely as the other.
Get New York and California to pass it. Might be enough. California has sort of done it lol
California is the EU of America.
I’d vote to create the EAU. I think there’s a real thirst for having some sanity over here.
Electronic Arts Union?
It’s a pun to discreetly signal that I welcome our new French overlords.
As a EU citizen - no thanks, unless you get like ten seats in the EU parliament at most.
As a Californian, I am fully used to being horrifically underrepresented proportionally in national politics, danke. Tax our billionaires. Give us healthcare. Make us use public transportation and drive on better roads. Do your worst. I triple dog dare you.
and as a citizen of a country other than the US, we’re very used to america being horrifically overrepresented in any sort of politics ever no matter what :p so swings and roundabouts i guess
Okay, good note.
What if we made Canameximerica first and then joined?
I mean, I’m feeling a vibe here.
North American Union has a certain ring to it
They’d probably bribe half the EU parliament and make it reduce the taxes in EU instead.
You are about 30 years too late...
The double Irish with a Dutch sandwich is a tax avoidance technique employed by certain large corporations.
Honestly can’t blame you.
Laws like these would thankfully get killed dead by the first amendment in the USA.
Stop trying to kill the Internet with overbearing government regulations.
Cries from the UK.
I hear cries in British.
“…and the tea is cold!”
Yep.
Not likely. This act would never pass the 1st amendment check.
Just join Mastodon and you will not have to wait for Elon.
Oh no! Anyway
how do i read this
With enough sarcasm dripping off it that an elephant would have to start swimming in a minute or two.
With as little effort as it is possible for a human to put into something without literally just collapsing from muscle failure.
Great! Please do it! All the harm you do to Twitter only helps mastodon grow.
I love mastodon and the growing fediverse.
Do it! Do it! Do it!
Don’t threaten me with a good time!
That's a bold move Cotton ...
finally some good news!
<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a851f700-806e-4804-921d-a30adbcde9ec.webm">
Yes, please!
… and he believed, I mean, really believed, that would be some kind of threat!
LMFAO!!
I know right?! “Don’t threaten me with a good time, Elmo”
#SpaceKaren is ultra clueless.
#CosmoKaren or #KosmoKaren
Good.
Good riddance, I guess?
Dear musk, you don’t have to consider, you can just remove X from rest of the world
Do it. Go on, do it. A real man would do it.
A REAL SMARTEST MAN would do it.
Never happening, he doesn’t have the balls, Elon Musk is just a wittle bitty boy
The people who previously ran Twitter wouldn’t have done it. C’mon Elon, are you as scared as they would be?
A real aerospace engineer would do it, c’mon Elon, you are one of those, aren’t you?
A real tesla cofounder would do it for sure.
That’s founder to you! The court says so, so it must be true. I’ve had to go to court to prove I started the laundry, so it makes sense he had to too. 😆
Anybody know what a real programmer would do?
Ah, nevermind, he is too young for that.
I hear Zuck once threatened to pull Meta out of the EU too. Musk is a real man though. No joke, he can probably be goaded to do it, just like how he got baited into buying Twitter in the first place.
We can only hope
Yipeeeeee
Please do so thanks
Come on man do it! DO IT!
Musk threatens to kill off Twitter in the EU, and all the Europeans are going “hooray! Finally we can forget about that cesspool and go on with our lives”
Kinda reminds you of that scene from lethal weapons, Musk is the jumper, Riggs the Europeans and Murtaugh the Twitter employees.
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oh no, the huge manatee
As a Brit, I’ve never been more angry at Brexit than right now, when we could have been on the cusp of losing access to Twitter. I’d have been free from the temptation to lurk occasionally, but noooooo, the fucking Tories had to go and “Get Brexit Done” and so we have to still live in a world where I feel compelled to go over there and gawk at the mess.
Bastards.
So apart from paywall, we now have even a singupwall, fck that. Could you please next time just prntscrn whole article? It’s matter of 10s…
Please please please please do so
lol please do it.
CHIIIIIIICKEN! Bork bork bork!
Great, now do tesla too. Stupid Tesla chargers popping up around my country. I’ve got an aging nissan and want chademo damnit!
Dont be a pussy, Elmo; drop the EU!!
The DSA would nullify the entire point of buying twitter, forcing him to reveal exactly how he is using the platform to further his goals.
In addition to the liability exemptions, the DSA would introduce a wide-ranging set of new obligations on platforms, including some that aim to disclose to regulators how their algorithms work, while other obligations would create transparency on how decisions to remove content are taken
He should do it!
Can’t wait
.
Oh no… anyways
That sounds like a treat, not a threat!
Do it!
As an European just do it! This will spur a move from a lot of people to the fediverse.
I’d love it too. I actually wonder why news orgs, NGOs and governments don’t already run their own federated servers for employees.
They can actually moderate their boards and reach a really wide audience. I believe it’s because most news organizations barely have resources available. But governments should definitely be present.
I’m not referring to discussion forums, but employees of news orgs being protected from capricious asshole owners of social media platforms. e.g. CNN’s Donnie O’Sullivan was banned from Twitter for reporting on Elon Musk’s war with flight tracking accounts. He wasn’t the only journalist either. Or news orgs as a whole not receiving media ticks or being tagged negatively (e.g. called US government sponsored news site) because (again) the owner of the network is an asshole.
Europe: “oh no! Anyway…” Me: “Do America next!”
Do it. It is perceived much differently than government blocking site, speaking from experience. When cenzorship agency blocks something, people seek ways to be there, when something pulls out of country, people say good riddance.
The irony is that the real losers if Twitter pulls out of the EU will be all the misinfo actors.
They can still move to whatever substitutes it, like the fediverse, but that also likely means more pressure to make it better, too.
Don’t threaten us with good time, Elon.
Also no way he is going through. He is way too much in financial hole to give up European market. Like Google or Meta, sure they have the financial standing to maybe pull such move and survive.
Xitter? They need every visitor and account they can have globally to even think about staying viable.
Empty bluster and pointless empty bluster, since EU would just go “fine. Our continental economy or prosperity doesn’t depend on your social media company. Social media isn’t a critical industry, so we are just fine with you leaving. Plus there is 10 others like you anyway”.
You can’t threaten people with something that doesn’t damage them and heck might be seen as benefit.
Does xitter read like shitter?
Looks like the European laws actually protects us digitally!
Good riddance.
oh no please don’t
Do the stupid self destructive thing Elon, you know you want to.
He doesn’t have a choice. He wants to keep the misinformation farm going.
If only Facebook would follow that lead. And others, too!
Dude thinks he’s so important that he can bully others into getting what he wants just by threatening to leave. Here’s hoping the EU calls him on it. What do they have to lose? Twitter brings no value to anyone other than Musk these days.
Please do it and convince Steve Huffman as well. The fediverse always welcomes more users.
kbye
.
…is he flexing?
I get the feeling he thinks he’s always flexing, even when he doesn’t notice that his pants just fell down and everyone’s laughing at him.
pls dont get my hopes up
Yes please! Do it Mellon!
Carnegie Mellon?
360 Mellon to 5-0 kiss the rail
Oh no! anyway…
Me considers moving to EU after Twitter withdrawl.
Bye.
Maybe the theory about the Saudis financing Musk to buy Twitter in order to kill it is not too far fetched afterall.
Here’s hoping Zuck will do the same! Garbage misinformation platforms, with all around lack of moderation, and value.
Man, now I wish the UK never left…
This is what did it? This is what made you wish?
Nah. I was being hyperbolic.
Meta might as well ban the usage of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and of course the Meta Quest headsets from being used in the EU. Oh, and all Google products as well (maybe except YouTube). We are so close to a new tomorrow.
I guess EU citizens are just gonna move to Norway if they wanna use those services (I’d assume VPN usage would be blocked as well)
It would be the greatest news I’ve heard in 2 years if that where to happen
Exactly, modern social media stinks
They would be replaced with locally created versions, with privacy in mind.
The useful ones at least.
Good choice
Honestly, without these monopolies, yes it will suck for a bit but it would allow us to essentially rebuild the internet. It sounds exciting more than anything. If the EU blocks anything, thats a different story. The deal now is that companies are vaguely threatening to leave because they dont wanna deal with our laws.
That’s a checkmate if I’ve ever smelled one
Speaking from experience, it doesn’t really help to vpn to Norway .
Unless there are some Netflix titles exclusive to the Norwegian version of Netflix, I don’t wanna use a VPN.
Don’t be a cock tease elin just pull out already
Lucky them.
Do it, coward
Weren’t they already threatening to ban it in the first place?
This has major “You can’t fire me cause I quit!” energy
Please, please, please, do it
Apparently, this news is not true, sadly.
Elmo said so himself on Xitter according to a Belgian news site.
Couldn’t verify it though since I don’t go on xitter.
Can he do the US next?
I’m praying…
Came to say this. Can he threaten to remove the X platform from the US over EU law?
DO IT
I’m going to view this as a boon to the good people in Europe.
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
So should we call this Xexit or just Xit?
.
Xit is the better pun.
Do it do it do it do it
DOOOOOO EEEEEEEEEEEEET
Please do.
Fucking do it.
I second this, fuck right off.
how can I block lemmy from showing me 800 musk rage posts a day?
If you use Sync for Lemmy, you can add filters that removes certain topics of your choosing.
Yup, also on Boost and possibly other Lemmy apps.
Both (Sync and Boost) are, in my opinion, the best Lemmy apps. An extensive set of features and customisation, lovely interface, they are 5 star products.
Agreed. I’ll use your comment to mention that I also enjoyed using Connect and Thunder, which are free.
Oh, gonna try them too. Thanks for the tip!
Tap on his face 27 times.
The bird died long ago. Time to bury it.
Dooo it dooo it
Why not just adapt to the new rules? Others have to do the same.
developers would have to add features to the platform but they only learned how to remove features
But add features are easy. Just put a X there and call it a day.
Imagine the world super power Europe would become,with no twitter, Facebook, instagram and til tok…
consumer protections, health care…
strong workers unions, accessible housing…
God I imagine an internet free of corporate influence, I miss when they were visitors and not Gatekeepers
Imagine a world where corporations that retard human development are not rewarded more than corporations that promote development.
By God it is beautiful
Please do it
As a European, I’m begging you, Elon. PLEASE remove X from Europe. Thank you!
Yes I agree!
Maybe just turn it off for the good of all humanity, why stop at Europe?
Remove it from North America too
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Don’t threaten us with a good time
Watching Musk and Twitter destroy each other has been my guilty pleasure for the last couple of months.
Hopefully that will get us another wave of users who have not really used reddit before and want to try something new.
Given that Europe was talking about banning the app anyway, this strikes me as a you can’t fire me I quit situation
I dare you. I double dare you, motherfucker!
I dare you. I double dare you, motherfucker!
I dare you. I double dare you, motherfucker!
A lot of these other comments seem upset. I don’t care just as much I always didn’t.
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Do it, you spinless bag of dicks!
oh no… anyway…
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Please do!
Translation; I’m going to throw a temper tantrum because the you’re being mean to me after, someone who totally is not me, ruined my plaything that I was, forced to, buy.
Also I am totally wearing clothes, you’re just too poor to see them.
EU is starting to more heavily censor things. Social media that is “terrorist sympathizing”, “misinformation”, or “pro-hamas protests” when in reality what they’re doing is cutting off access to information from the other side.
Even on Twitter we’re seeing certain accounts get banned. I followed a guy who’s part of Hezbollah that would give on the ground updates. He got banned. Many other accounts have too.
Is this what we want? An iron curtain around the internet? So we can’t see the other side and they can’t see us? It’s a dangerous path we’re walking towards.
I’m not so sure it’s a dangerous path. There should be limits on what people can say.
I’m saying this as someone who up until the pandemic was very much against limits in ANY speech. There should be consequences for spreading hate and misinformation.
I’m aware that it’s a VERY dangerous and slippery slope too.
have no idea what the right amount of limits even looks like. I’m not an expert by any stretch of the imagination. What I do know is that what we have now isn’t working.
Why isn’t it working? What is the harm in people seeing beheadings? Reading the media of the opposite side? We start outlawing “misinformation” and the only information allowed is the official state narrative. People are so quick to forget that governments lie all the time. Weapons of mass destruction was an elaborate lie perpetuated by both governments and the media. When the US blew up a hospital in 2014~2015 in Afghanistan, they immediately denied it and blamed in on the Afghanis. There’s multiple examples of Israel killing journalists or bombing civilians and then lying about it.
We live in a post-truth age. Outlawing one lie simply allows the other to proliferate more easily. It’s dangerous and we’re looking more and more like authoritarian China every passing day.
People should have the right to decide for themselves what sort of media they want to consume. They should be able to decide for themselves what lies they want to believe.
PLEASE DO!