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Twitter has an agreement with the FTC around their data security practices. EU has GDPR now and DSA in 2024.

And EU member states eg. Germany have their own rules for what content is allowed or not.

You can argue whether the laws are appropriate or not but Twitter does have to comply with them or stop making their product available in those jurisdictions.



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