Spyke
Rentlar
lemmy.ca

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!

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Plebreply
feddit.de

Yeah Elmo, do it! You can show the whoel world how much more of a man you are! Do it!

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Ziggurat
sh.itjust.works

Please do-it

Casse toi pauvre con

Bitte, die Tür is offen

Me voy a beber champagne si se occure

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Square Singerreply
feddit.de

Hupf in Gatsch

Und schlog' a Wölln

Oba tua mi do net quö'ln

Hupf in Gatsch

Und gib a Ruh

Sonst schliess ich Dir die Augen zu

So an Oamutschgal wie Dir schenk' ich an Schülling

Oda na I gib da zwa donn bist a Zwülling

Wö aner allan konn doch net so deppert sein

Hupf in Gatsch und grob di ein

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Square Singerreply
feddit.de

Interessant, hätte gedacht das Wort ist generelles Deutsch. Scheint's wohl nur im Österreichischen Deutsch vorhanden zu sein. Steht auf jeden Fall bei uns im Wörterbuch.

Gatsch ist gleichbedeutend zu Matsch.

Hier ist das Lied, von dem der Text stammt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nz0koxHf_E0

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bedroomsreply
kbin.social

At this point every SNS app can just boycott EU in protest of the e2ee ban, and that'd only make a better world.

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vzq
lemmy.blahaj.zone

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.

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N4CHEMreply
lemmy.ml

Eh, he "considered" buying Twitter and was forced to fulfill his agreement. Maybe we get lucky and it happens again.

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dEVbiKubreply
feddit.nu

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...

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Foni
lemm.ee

Facebook said the same thing a few years ago and here I am, waiting for them to go away

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miskreply
sopuli.xyz

Mark Zuckerberg, for all his flaws, seems to be a functioning adult.

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Gameyreply
feddit.de

And a somewhat calculating buisiness man, I have far higher hopes for little Elon in this case!

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Rallyreply
lemmy.world

No I don't think that is a story I would have heard from the jedi

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nicetriangle
kbin.social

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

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trollercoasterreply
feddit.de

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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Dizzy Devil Ducky
lemm.ee

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

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philpo
feddit.de

The thing is that it won't save him from the current inquiry. Once the EU rules that he is in breach of the current legislation (which he clearly is) he owes them a shitload of money. Sure, he chose to not pay(he is mad enough to try). But that would later on make the Twitter penalties his personal problem.

And that is painful even for a billionaire. No more skiing in the Swiss Alps, no more Saint Tropez in the summer, no Monaco. And none of his assets can ever return to the EU or EU friendly allies.

That would probably make him even more mad.

Which I like. A lot.

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Gameyreply
feddit.de

Well, he reguses to pay tons of open bills for months so I wouldn't even be especially surprised tbh!

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philporeply
feddit.de

Yeah, but it's a bit different when big players like the EU are behind it. That's a tad bit different to the numerous landlords and employees he fucked over.

But don't get me wrong, I am also sure that he won't pay simply because he is so much his own ass that be thinks he is above everything.

Which the EU Commission really hates and makes them go more after you .

That could be a nice drama to watch.

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Gameyreply
feddit.de

I am honestly not sure what he will do but let's hope we get a great show out of it I guess!

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Ben Matthews
sopuli.xyz

Suppose this happens - his stated dream of global town square dead - except it was already because most people in the world live neither in Europe nor US. China has wechat behind their great firewall, russophone areas have vkontact and telegram and their alternate reality, meanwhile, in much of the rest of the world I fear Meta dominates (even in francophone Europe, and Africa so I'm told).

So - forcing europeans to rethink could give the fediverse an opportunity - but it also hasn't penetrated much globally, the real challenge is to broaden beyond english speakers and north-atlantic. How to do this? One issue is fediverse is best on desktop, while most people in developing countries are using small screens. But it's not just about tech - there are big japanese fedi-communities with little interaction with the west, presumably due to language barrier.
A decentralised system could even thrive in authoritarian states, if there is some way to protect server admins. I recall twitter seemed to play a key role during the Arab spring, what's the replacement ?

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Ben Matthewsreply
sopuli.xyz

To go a bit further, if you like conspiracies, maybe this was the whole point - instructions from the Kremlin, and big cash from Saudis inter alia...- to break the concept of shared global discussion, noting twitter also played a key role in western support for Ukraine too. They are late - that ship sailed, but we don't yet have another, be careful what you wish for.

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Sigmatics
lemmy.ca

Free speech platform for the whole world

Neither of those will be true in the end

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taladarreply
feddit.de

Well, the "speech platform" part is sort of true. The "free" part isn't, the "for the world" part certainly isn't. the "whole world" part is only true if you correct the "for" to "against".

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AutoTL;DR
lemmings.world

This is the best summary I could come up with:

In recent weeks Elon Musk has suggested Twitter could stop being accessible in Europe in order to avoid new regulation enacted by the European Commission.

The Tesla billionaire, who acquired Twitter, now called X, a year ago for $44 billion, has discussed simply removing the app's availability in the region, or blocking users in the European Union from accessing it, the person said.

"That's part of the reason he gutted international teams the first chance he got," one of the people familiar said, referring to some of the thousands of employees Musk has laid off or fired since taking over the company.

A winnowing down of Twitter's international presence came up again earlier this year, when Musk decided to close nearly all of the company's roughly two dozen global offices, including most in Europe and India, as well as those in Australia, Africa, and South Korea.

Although Musk has yet to pull X out of any country, essentially no employees remain in Europe, one of the people said, as offices in Paris, Madrid, and Berlin are closed.

Although Musk has met at least twice this year with Commissioner Breton about what X needs to do to comply with the DSA, he's lost patience with the situation, one of the people familiar said.

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