Elon Musk takes control of Twitter, fires top management

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Fuck Elon Musk (Part 1)

Everybody is talking about what he is going to do with Twitter but I haven’t yet seen any analysis how this will go down in other regulatory environments, such as the EU. I don’t think the Commission will stand idly by when hate speech takes over the “town square”. I expect some fines being levied, some grandstanding by Musk that he won’t pay and then him backing down when he realises that the EU absolutely will cut him out of the market if they want. ETA: just found this:

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