People don’t realize that other countries have a different definition of ‘Free Speech’ than we Americans do................
Twitter could just not allow their app to be used in the UK................
“Twitter could just not allow their app to be used in the UK................”
It wouldn’t seem much like Musk to voluntarily drop revenue by a few billion...
“People don’t realize that other countries have a different definition of ‘Free Speech’ than we Americans do................”
Yes; for example, in the UK it is much easier to win a defamation case than in the US.
In any case, our First Amendment freedoms protect us from *government* censorship, not private censorship. If you doubt that, try trashing your (private, nonunion) employer in a very public way and see how long you have a job.
The idea that British authorities will be able to prevent their people from seeing what is on a website is a testament to how childish and stupid those authorities are.
Proposed Digital Services Act - amending Directive 2000/31/EC
They all claim to promote free speech, then proceed to carve "speech" in the "free" part and the "regulated/forbiden" part. Everybody gets all the free speech the government allows. What could be more free than that?