УНН Politics ✎ Elon Musk reacted to the European Commission's decision to fine the social network X, stating that the European Union should be
"abolished." He believ…
Twitter’s biggest asset is its market dominance. People can’t leave Twitter because all their followers are also on Twitter. If Twitter were to be banned in the EU, that would be a big market share where a competitor could emerge. Since said competitor would not be constrained to the EU, once a new market leader of the EU market emerges, it would soon challenge Twitter in the US and internationally.
The issue is you can’t have a “Twitter-like” platform in one day. So the next platform could very well be chinese and you will have just as many problems with them.
I’d rather have no equivalent, and people flocking to federated systems (Fediverse, ATproto being the 2 big names right now). If you have enough instances of sufficient size, not one instance, thus not one person and/or company can dictate everything.
why not just abolish X from the EU, problem solved, they arnt losing that much.
Twitter’s biggest asset is its market dominance. People can’t leave Twitter because all their followers are also on Twitter. If Twitter were to be banned in the EU, that would be a big market share where a competitor could emerge. Since said competitor would not be constrained to the EU, once a new market leader of the EU market emerges, it would soon challenge Twitter in the US and internationally.
The issue is you can’t have a “Twitter-like” platform in one day. So the next platform could very well be chinese and you will have just as many problems with them.
I’d rather have no equivalent, and people flocking to federated systems (Fediverse, ATproto being the 2 big names right now). If you have enough instances of sufficient size, not one instance, thus not one person and/or company can dictate everything.
that makes sense. So it would be a good move ?
For everyone other than Elon Musk, yes.
I think the number of users is still relevant. They want all that data both for themselves and their “partners”. Not to speak of the supplement grift.
But most of all: Xhitter provides a lot of MAGA propaganda worldwide, and supports far-right hucksters in the EU and elsewhere.
So yeah, we need to abolish it.
Nah, that would put us in the same camp as Russia and China. Which surprisingly Elon isn’t critizing at all.
Perhaps choose the high road instead.