Why doesn't the E.U. just block X at this point? The posting on and moderation of X has to be consistently in violation of their human rights and decency laws. They're at least a third of the userbase. Shut it down!
Why doesn't the E.U. just block X at this point? The posting on and moderation of X has to be consistently in violation of their human rights and decency laws. They're at least a third of the userbase. Shut it down!
Blocking X would be very, very difficult. Even China has problems with blocking sites.
But what the EU could very well do is ban Twitter from doing business in the EU. Meaning, they can't sell advertisements to European companies. Can't have offices within the EU. Can't have servers within the EU.
Then you also have to ban international VPNs, Tor, and with smaller sites you would also run into the issue that blocking them you would also cause tremendous collateral damage of sites that happen to be on the same IP addresses.
Why doesn't the E.U. just block X at this point? The posting on and moderation of X has to be consistently in violation of their human rights and decency laws. They're at least a third of the userbase. Shut it down!
That may very well be in the offing.
Blocking X would be very, very difficult. Even China has problems with blocking sites.
But what the EU could very well do is ban Twitter from doing business in the EU. Meaning, they can't sell advertisements to European companies. Can't have offices within the EU. Can't have servers within the EU.
True it’s difficult, but not impossible at the core routers. But you’re right banning business would amount to much of the same result!
Then you also have to ban international VPNs, Tor, and with smaller sites you would also run into the issue that blocking them you would also cause tremendous collateral damage of sites that happen to be on the same IP addresses.