Posted on 05/28/2020 4:52:35 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A German government official appeared to court Twitter to relocate its headquarters to Europe as the social media giant faces tensions with President Trump.
Hey @Twitter & @jack, this is an invitation to move to Germany! Here you are free to criticize the government as well as to fight fake news, tweeted Thomas Jarzombek, who oversees tech affairs for Germanys Economic Affairs Ministry.
We have a great startup and tech ecosystem, your company would be a perfect fit and I will open any doors for you! he added, tagging President Trump.
SNIP
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Except under the EU rules, like the meme ban, theyre not free to do anything of the sort.
Humorous given the EUs intolerance for speech
If Twitter did, you’d see 1/2 the people switch to Parler
I think Twitter is well aware of how the EU treats US tech companies.
Theyre better off with Trump.
Good. They can go. But if they leave the USA they might get their Dot Com address revoked since that’s a US address.
Or China. Move to China!
Imagine twitter without Memes or libel.
They couldn’t exist in the EUSSR.
Article 13 kills media sharing on it. Any user can have anything attached to their account nuked, even information others are sharing. Also libel laws are stricter in Germany than America.
It would be like moving GM to Sudan because oil is cheaper there.
and when ever the EU needed cash they could just Fine Twitter like they do Google and Apple ,LOL
He will have to deal with EU Hell and still get sued by US Users, sounds like a win win to me!
28 May: If Trump kicks out Twitter, there’s always Germany
by Thomson Reuters Foundation (Reporting by Douglas Busvine; Editing by Susan Fenton)
Jarzombek’s offer contrasts with Germany’s frequently testy relationship with U.S. social media giants, which face fines of up to 50 million euros ($55 million) if they fail to quickly remove hateful content from their sites.
But Europe’s largest economy is also keen to establish itself as a hub for tech entrepreneurship and Twitter Inc would be the ultimate catch. ($1 = 0.9074 euros) https://news.trust.org/item/20200528133415-ddkdm/
and he believes in the manmade gloBULL warming hoax:
28 Nov 2019: BBC: Europe’s new space budget to enable CO2 mapping
By Jonathan Amos, BBC Science Correspondent, Seville
“Earth observation is the cornerstone of German space policy,” said Thomas Jarzombek, from the nation’s Economic Affairs Ministry.
“People are more and more interested in climate change and what we can do to protect ourselves against it. Information is key because we can only really act against climate change if we understand what it going on. Copernicus gives us better data,” he told BBC News...
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-50594831
I think Twitter is well aware of how the EU treats US tech companies.
Theyre better off with Trump.
“Here you are free to criticize the American government...”
Fixed.
Do it Jack and take the U N with you.
We don't have an "Economic Affairs Ministry". We don't need an "Economic Affairs Ministry".
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