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dublinben · 4471 days ago · link · · parent · post: Twitter: dealing with country-specific content control.
Twitter could stand up for free speech on the internet. They're an American business, which can avail themselves of the strongest free speech protections in the world. Germany can have fun trying to levy a fine against a foreign company with no presence in their jurisdiction.
They're an American business, which can avail themselves of the strongest free speech protections in the world.
But that protection doesn't extend to Germany. Germany can regulate Twitter in its borders. If you are doing business in the EU, you play by their rules, maybe the US could go to bat for you. But, I surely don't see that happening in that scenario. If Germany levied a fine, the EU would likely back them up. The US isn't going to have Twitter's back.
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