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misk ( misk@sopuli.xyz )  to Europe@feddit.deEnglish · 3 years ago

Elon Musk is considering taking Twitter out of Europe amid EU compliance investigation

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Elon Musk is considering taking Twitter out of Europe amid EU compliance investigation

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misk ( misk@sopuli.xyz )  to Europe@feddit.deEnglish · 3 years ago
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As Twitter, renamed X, faces increased scrutiny in the EU and usage falls, Elon Musk has floated drastic action.
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  • sucius1 ( sucius1@lemdro.id ) 
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    Good

    • Sigmatics ( Sigmatics@lemmy.ca ) 
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      Goodbye

      • trollercoaster ( trollercoaster@feddit.de ) 
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        …and that’s why they put a “good” in “goodbye”

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          • taladar ( taladar@feddit.de ) 
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            So Servicebye in the case of Twitter?

      • Che Banana ( Che_Donkey@lemmy.ml ) 
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        Adios!

  • Sneaky Bastard ( sneaky_b45tard@feddit.de ) 
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    Yeah go on Elon, less fakenews in europe is a total win

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      • Ben Matthews ( benjhm@sopuli.xyz ) 
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        I think it would only be a win if euro-comm does the same for WhatsApp, otherwise the fakes just get less transparent. And maybe this is all part of authoritarian countries cutting the world off from european ideas, see my other comments.

  • Rentlar ( Rentlar@lemmy.ca ) 
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    Perhaps Mr. Musk would be receptive to the following message:

    Hey Musk! You’re not a bitch like Zuckerberg right? Show the world the man that you are and pull out of the EU like you mean it! I dare you! You won’t if you got no balls!

    • Pleb ( pleb_maximus@feddit.de ) 
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      Yeah Elmo, do it! You can show the whoel world how much more of a man you are! Do it!

    • Gamey ( Gamey@feddit.de ) 
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      Do it, do it, dot it!

  • SomeDude ( ProcurementCat@feddit.de ) 
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    Yes Elon, please. That’d be the smartest thing you ever did.

    • bedrooms ( bedrooms@kbin.social ) 
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      At this point every SNS app can just boycott EU in protest of the e2ee ban, and that’d only make a better world.

  • Foni ( Foni@lemm.ee ) 
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    Facebook said the same thing a few years ago and here I am, waiting for them to go away

    • misk ( misk@sopuli.xyz ) OP
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      Mark Zuckerberg, for all his flaws, seems to be a functioning adult.

      • Gamey ( Gamey@feddit.de ) 
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        And a somewhat calculating buisiness man, I have far higher hopes for little Elon in this case!

  • vzq ( vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 
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    The fact that he says he’s “considering it” means he’s not going to do it.

    Otherwise he would have just done it. This is a ploy to have his cake and eat it by issuing empty threats.

    • N4CHEM ( N4CHEM@lemmy.ml ) 
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      Eh, he “considered” buying Twitter and was forced to fulfill his agreement. Maybe we get lucky and it happens again.

    • dEVbiKub ( dEVbiKub@feddit.nu ) 
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      Exactly, considering before acting hasn’t really been his style since placing his bid on the company, shooting from the hip on the other hand…

  • Schnabeltierpoet ( Schnabeltierpoet@feddit.de ) 
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    Oh well, don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out…

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    Don’t get your hopes up, kids. The cunt won’t.

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    Yes please. This would further accelerate its fall from being considered the defacto internet town square.

    • trollercoaster ( trollercoaster@feddit.de ) 
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      It is the internet town square. Of a town run by the likes of Elon Musk. Badly neglected, crime taking place on the streets in broad daylight, hateful graffiti smeared all over the place, people taking shits right in the middle of town square, and nobody to clean it up nor stop the perpetrators, because the mayor has an odd liking for faeces, and occasionally likes to take a good old dump in the middle of town square, himself, too.

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    I think he is also toddler enough to do it.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky ( AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee ) 
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    Clearly nothing shady at all when your company makes threats (empty or otherwise) that they’re gonna disappear from your country if you investigate them for incompliance.

    Nothing to see here, just move along. /s

  • DarkThoughts ( DarkThoughts@kbin.social ) 
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    Just do it.

  • crispy_kilt ( crispy_kilt@feddit.de ) 
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    Please, do!

  • schnokobaer ( schnokobaer@feddit.de ) 
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    That would genuinely be so good.

  • Square Singer ( squaresinger@feddit.de ) 
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    Nive! Now how can we get Zuckerberg to do the same?

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