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.
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
Tax our billionaires.
They’d probably bribe half the EU parliament and make it reduce the taxes in EU instead.
You are about 30 years too late…
Honestly can’t blame you.
Cries from the UK.
Or pass their Digital Services Act
Not likely. This act would never pass the 1st amendment check.
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.
Just join Mastodon and you will not have to wait for Elon.
pls dont get my hopes up
Don’t threaten us with a good time
Fucking do it.
I second this, fuck right off.
Oh no! anyway…
Me considers moving to EU after Twitter withdrawl.
Do it, coward
Imagine the world super power Europe would become,with no twitter, Facebook, instagram and til tok…
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
consumer protections, health care…
strong workers unions, accessible housing…
Don’t be a cock tease elin just pull out already
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.
As a European, I’m begging you, Elon. PLEASE remove X from Europe. Thank you!
Yes I agree!
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?
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.
So should we call this Xexit or just Xit?
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Xit is the better pun.
Please, please, please, do it
Yes please! Do it Mellon!
Carnegie Mellon?
360 Mellon to 5-0 kiss the rail