As Twitter, renamed X, faces increased scrutiny in the EU and usage falls, Elon Musk has floated drastic action.

As Twitter, renamed X, faces increased scrutiny in the EU and usage falls, Elon Musk has floated drastic action.

  • @[email protected]
    1•2 years ago

    Eu feels very much like they don’t want any balls in their ball pit. I hate their garbage cookie compliance spam they forced on all of us crapping up the internet

  • nfh
    36•2 years ago

    Don’t threaten me with a good time

  • blazera
    2•2 years ago

    I hate musk and his handling of twitter, but i also dont like EU’s anti-privacy push online

  • magnetosphere
    5•2 years ago

    As much as I’d like to see this happen, I don’t think he’ll actually do it. His ego will not allow retreat.

    Then again, if he spins it as a moral act of defiance against “woke” and “overreaching” Big Government regulations, I could see it. I still don’t think it’s likely, but it’s more of a possibility than it seemed when I started typing this comment.

    • Zellith
      6•2 years ago

      His ego is why I hope to god he starts charging money for access to the service. I can imagine the number of likes, retweets and follows taking a huge nosedive as the musk fanatics stop using bots to prop him up.

  • @[email protected]
    6•2 years ago

    So while we all rightfully hate Musk, what does “removing twitter from the EU” even look like? Does he just stop doing business with all European ad-agencies, get rid of the safety blanket that twitter installed to molify the German government, and basically through inaction allow European users who want to user twitter use it without materially supporting Musk through ads at all? That sounds like a win for european users who still want to use twitter.

    Does the EU step in and trip over their collective dicks trying to censor twitter from EU users? That doesn’t like something that anyone should desire, or support, it would also be ineffective. Does Twitter try to trip over their dicks trying to censor twitter from EU users? Given how well twitter is run, I look forward to most EU users who want to use twitter being able to do so almost trivially after just a few months. So basically Musk can’t make money from twitter in the EU, but who cares? It’s already losing astounding amounts of money. It’s not a sustainable business, and it never was going to be.

    So it sounds like even if this was going to happen (it won’t, he’ll just shut down all of twitter when he realizes he can’t pay for it anymore,) that it will improve the experience for everyone who still uses it, including those in the EU, and twitter will have even less oversight then it does today.

    • @[email protected]
      3•2 years ago

      I expect a “This page is not available to European Users” page setup by X when entering and that’s it similar to some pages that didn’t want to to deal with GDPR did. Maybe since this is Elon Musk some rant or some crazy shit on it but that’s basically it.

      The thing with European ads agencies side not sure, the issue of X with Europe doesn’t have much to do with them or in any case European Users wouldn’t be effected by their ads anyway if the page is blocked and they might have ads for the USA I guess? So not sure if that would stop.

      Of course regarding access VPNs and similar would still work… But really at least in my case I don’t see myself using a VPN just to check Twitter… I will simply stop using it I barely use it already just as an RSS alternative to get some notifications.

      • @[email protected]
        1•2 years ago

        The issue is that in order to block a website on the internet from a subset of users, there is a huge amount of work that has to be done to make it effective. I can’t imagine twitter would bother with any of that, and why would they? It doesn’t cost them anything to just shut down their EU offices/operations, stop complying with all EU laws they have to comply with in order to do business there, and make twitter (even more) American-centric. EU users can still use it if they want, since at the end of the day it’s just a website on the internet.