Bálint SzilaksziDec 16, 2022

This “Elon is free to do what he wants on Twitter, and you’re free to move elsewhere” is a very american take.

Elon must comply with European laws and regulations in data protection, anti-trust, anti-discrimination, etc or the EU will seize his property to enforce fines or make Twitter unavailable for EU.

Show threadJames Trickle uP
@szbalint I bet the EU is going to fine or take down the bird site soon, because it has become crazy land.
Dec 16, 2022 at 8:17amWeb
Show threadAral BalkanDec 16, 2022
@opalmirror @szbalint I’d love to know how many people Twitter currently employs in Ireland. Because if it’s close to zero after Elon’s cull, that effectively would mean that he’s lost his leverage over the Irish Data Protection Commission. (Basically, the unwritten agreement seems to be that Big Tech provides jobs in Ireland and the Data Protection Commission looks the other way when it comes to enforcing GDPR.) So, yeah, this could happen. He’s not very smart, is he? :)
Show threadAral BalkanDec 16, 2022
@opalmirror @szbalint PS. Neither Twitter or Tesla are on this list so that’s a positive, as far as this goes: https://businessplus.ie/news/biggest-fdi-companies-ireland/
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