Elon Musk is considering taking X out of Europe amid EU compliance investigation
businessinsider.comDo it Elon, please do it. I can't wait to reuse a blog aggregator. I so miss the quality of content that was around back then.
I’ve setup a dockerised freshrss feed reader on my home server (a tiny core i3) and sub to feeds i care about. Took 10 mins to setup and i live happily since then.
I am just using thunderbird to aggregate RSS
And what's stopping you now?
He should do a vote on X to find out what people want.
I am really surprised how can someone at times look so inginious and at other times eqully so dumb.
The latter is just his nature, the former was a combination of extremely high risk tolerance, confidence and luck. I'm sure there's been many Elons but they floundered or got shut down before they got so much money they could keep doubling down until they win (for a while).
Exactly just luck and money. For sure he is just dumb. Just a dumb lucky guy who somehow got into a phd program for physics in some dumb university...
Sounds like he might be a decent physicist.
The vast majority of comments on this website are from smart people that studied computer science, discussing many topics, talking completely out of their butt and often times being totally wrong about subjects outside of their field.
Being educated in one field doesn't always translate into other fields.
Don't misunderstand me. I never said he is neither dumb nor ingenious. I am just sharing my observation, on how it looks like in this case.
Interesting how the article kinda meanders between not-quite-saying that Elan is doing manly brinkmanship and is ready to make a rational business decision, and not-quite-saying that Elan is the dysfunctional captain of a soon-to-be shipwreck.
This would make room for a competing platform
EU should strongly consider allocating some funds to speed the process up.
Good riddance of a far-right pro-nazi bar
I never liked Elon, but "far-right pro-nazi bar"? Are you from reddit or did I just miss something?
I think it’s a reference to the story about a barkeep kicking out a nazi from his bar even though the nazi wasn’t doing anything wrong because he believed that as soon as you tolerate one, you are a nazi bar.
He has shared content from far right/pro-Nazi accounts in the past.
I take it the fact you're not sharing any sources is because your claim is either weak, out of context, or have never checked it yourself. Do we crucify Elon because he agreed on an unrelated topic with a person he did not know was a nazi?
So you hate a celebrity for a past time. Do you get confirmation for this kind of behaviour on other websites?
No nazis, no far right.. Elon agreeing with a point a conservative politician made makes him a nazi to you. Are you even German? Are you actually familiar with AFDs talking points? I take it you're on team anti-evil and saw the target painted.
Elon is an asshole. But the media didn't come after him until he started talking sense on Ukraine. Now every loser with a complex is using it as therapy to badmouth Elon.
Digga
1.) Tino Chrupalla im Artikel erwähnt ist rechtsextrem. Merz z.B. ist konservativ. Musk kennt wahrscheinlich nicht den wichtigsten, deutschen konservativen Politiker. 2.) AfD Propaganda ist zu teilen ist das Teilen rechtsextremer Propaganda.
Bisschen raus aus der AfD Blase.
1.) Was macht Tino Chrupalla rechst-extrem? Heutzutage isst alles was einter nich mag rechts-extreem. Weil heutzutage wen du nicht übertreibst hört dich keiner. Darum muss man da die Deteils beachten. Ist Tino nurh gegen immigration oder sind da andere rechts-extreme parolen? 2.) Ich verstehe Deutsch. Das war kein Deutsch.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tino_Chrupalla#Zeitungen_und_P... "Nach Angaben der Lausitzer Rundschau kündigte Chrupalla 2017 an, sich dafür einzusetzen, „die Zeitungsredaktionen in die Schranken“ zu weisen, wofür er auch Änderungen von Gesetzen und am Grundgesetz nicht ausschließe.[51] Gegenüber der taz erklärte Chrupalla, diese Aussage sei so nicht gefallen, die Redakteurin der Lausitzer Rundschau habe sie erfunden.[15] Allerdings forderte Chrupalla im Januar 2019 Parteikollegen auf, „schwarze Listen“ über Journalisten zu führen und „Hintergrundinformationen über als Journalisten getarnte Zersetzungsagenten“ zusammenzutragen.[52][53]" "Das Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz nannte ihn namentlich in seinem Gutachten, das die Einstufung der AfD als Prüffall begründet. Grund dafür ist, dass er dem Rechtsextremisten und verurteilten Holocaustleugner Nikolai Nerling im Juni 2018 ein bei YouTube veröffentlichtes Interview gegeben hatte.[18][19]"
"In einem ZDF-Interview nach seiner Wahl zu einem der beiden Bundesvorsitzenden Ende 2019 wurde Chrupalla wegen seines Aufrufs zu gemäßigter Sprache zu seinen eigenen Aussagen befragt. Chrupalla bestritt daraufhin, den Begriff „Umvolkung“ verwendet zu haben, obwohl Videoaufzeichnungen davon vorliegen. Chrupalla erwiderte dann, er halte den Begriff nicht für rechtsextrem und er habe ihn „nicht bewusst gesetzt“. Auch Ausführungen eines Teilnehmers derselben Veranstaltung, der Migration mit einem Genozid, bei dem die Deutschen durch ein „Mischvolk“ ersetzt würden, verglichen und verurteilte Kriegsverbrecher des Zweiten Weltkriegs als „Jungs, die am Galgen in Nürnberg geendet sind“, bezeichnet hatte, gab Chrupalla damals laut Videoaufnahmen „zum Teil recht“, was er im Interview dann bestritt; stattdessen behauptete er, dem Mann widersprochen zu haben.[58][59]"
> Elon agreeing with a point a conservative politician made makes him a nazi to you
I can't read German - what was the point?
Physical attacks on right-leaning politicians in Germany are on the rise. Usually in the name of peaceful coexistance, as they are targeted at politicians opposing an open immigration policy.
I personally oppose an open immigration policy and I see myself more on the left in most issues. That's why the whole left / right divide is nonsense. I can oppose keeping minimum income low by employing(taking advantage of) people from poorer countries without being racist.
Calling Elon a nazi because he agreed with something a right leaning politician said is juvenile. And that's coming from a person whose family was targeted for extemination by the nazis (grandfather was an intellectual slav(dr.med.), can't have that screwing with the race theories).
Spot on.
> Calling Elon a nazi because he agreed with something a right leaning politician said is juvenile. And that's coming from a person whose family was targeted for extemination by the nazis (grandfather was an intellectual slav(dr.med.), can't have that screwing with the race theories).
Exactly. It seems that word (Nazi) just loses its meaning each time it is loosely used to describe someone that they don't like, in this case to Elon Musk and others. It is beyond childish and does a disservice to those who have fought actual 'Nazis' or have directly suffered under them.
So their best [0] was to find a guilt by association over Elon and this politician in the article, agreeing with being against open and uncontrolled immigration; therefore Nazi. Oh dear.
Maybe everyone who is driving Volkswagons today are also nazis or anyone working for IBM is also a nazi. /s
sorry false news spreading. The politician who was attacked was far right, was lying (claimed, he was poisoned) and spread the lie after debunked.
> The Ingolstadt public prosecutor's office in Bavaria, after having previously refuted allegations of an attack on AfD co-chairman Tino Chrupalla at a campaign event last week, has said that the conservative leader did indeed suffer from some kind of "puncture injury,"
Welcome to the information war. Rules are simple: Never admit you're wrong and never forget you're fighting for the good side.
https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/german-doctor... https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2023-10/tino-chrupal...
So Elon took a position on this issue in support of this politician. But my issue is what makes this politician a nazi? Genuine question as I'm not a German.
Both far-right and pro-Nazi definitions have been greatly expanded to cover nearly all of the "original antifa" [1], CS Lewis is a far-right red-flag [2], and "racist" has been expanded beyond all meaning [3]. Meanwhile the Canadian parliament applauded a literal Waffen SS fighter [4], but somehow the 'Nazi-adjacent' label didn't stick to them.
Which is not to say there is no genuine merit behind your accusation, just that, without elaborating, it's impossible to know what they mean, as even just enforcing standing immigration law is far-right these days.
[1] Prevailing opinion among 5872 typical white enlisted men in the Air Forces is: Train Negroes as pilots, bombardiers and navigators, but segregate the Negro both in training and in subsequent duty. - https://ia902302.us.archive.org/25/items/us-war-department-f...
[2] https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/crime/cs-lewis-home-office...
[3] https://www.embracerace.org/resources/explaining-to-my-eight...
[4] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/canadian-parliament-ovatio...
> the Canadian parliament applauded a literal Waffen SS fighter
That seems to have been a simple screening fuck-up — probably by a relatively-young staffer — and the MP resigned his post as speaker in consequence.
Along with JRR Tolkien, Aldous Huxley, Joseph Conrad and George Orwell.
Share one wrong thing on twitter and you are literally a nazi. Amazing.
For his 5head-200iq-4d-chess-brain he plays by the playbook a lot.
Oh, please, please do.
Oh no :-( Anyway...
He should do it. Europeans are kids and we like to only be shown safe and official social news, approved by our parents.
Please Elon, do it!
Ugh. I've been saying for years that the EU Commission's approach would eventually lead to stuff like this but nobody was willing to listen. The assumption EU bureaucrats and "EU citizens" make is that there are no limits to the punishment beatings executives will take to avoid bans in large geographical areas. This isn't actually true and has never been true, but for some reason a lot of people are in denial about it. The stream of tech firms giving up on China should have been a wakeup call, the way new products like Bard and Threads launched with EU blocks in place from day one should have been another.
The EU is barrelling head first towards being a tech backwater. Unlike China it probably isn't going to implement internet censorship muscular enough to stimulate a set of competent home grown competitors; the Commission always likes to make other people do its dirty work so they'll expect the products themselves to do blocks but the incentives to make those blocks stick aren't really there beyond tickbox compliance. People stuck in member states will just use VPNs or other workarounds, and nobody will pony up the sums needed to build genuine competitors. In turn this means that the EU won't develop home grown replacements to unavailable services or any of the other products people already use, because it's just far too risky to invest the huge sums required when at any moment the Commission might arbitrarily change its mind (something it does regularly) or your target market just gets used to convoluted workarounds.
IMPORTANT: To all US tech firm employees reading this. Please remember that not everywhere in Europe is in the EU. The UK, Switzerland, Norway, Ukraine, Serbia, Iceland, Lichtenstein and a whole host of smaller countries are not. Over-blocking is already a big problem for people living in these countries due to things like the GDPR.
> The assumption EU bureaucrats and "EU citizens" make is that there are no limits to the punishment beatings executives will take to avoid bans in large geographical areas
I am sorry but what makes you believe that the EU citizen and bureaucrats really want twitter that much? It's not power, water, or food production? It's just a website... If twitter disappeared, the next day something would take its place in the EU.
If a foreign company don't want to accept the laws of a country, they can leave, that's fine. I mean, I am sure that the bureaucrats would like nothing more than having a EU company taking over.
I think a lot of people are actually pro-blocking Twitter.
I like the fracturing, reduces the global hegemony of a single corporate entity controlling global communication.
I'm also in that camp....no more twitter, EU competitors would flourish.
As we enter the ai powered post truth social media world, I’m not sure anything will flourish beyond TikTok and YouTube getting more powerful.