They will. See Brazil last year, if you threaten to touch the money musk will comply.
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2025
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Just block it until they comply, nothing of value will be lost and European institutions and companies will finally start to realize that they should not rely on a single US company for public facing communications.
- The USA believe they are the world king.
- The corporations of the USA believe they're invincible.
- The French rejected the American far-right propaganda group's direct meddling in their politics.
- If the French leadership was aligned with the USA's, they wouldn't investigate anything harmful to society anyway, as extreme right-leaning folk want a revolution against the civil freedoms that we've had over the past decades. Harm to this society is exactly what X wants.
As for your point 4, De Gaulle was right to refuse being subordinated to the US after World War 2, and to pursue "strategic autonomy" instead.
Even before Trump 2.0, I always thought about the nature of the concept of alliance itself. Jacobin magazine made a point about not building alliance, but solidarity instead. Alliance implies impermanence and a tit for tat deal. Whereas, solidarity shows unquestionable mutual cooperation that does not look for anything in return. Jacobin wrote it in the context of social justice particularly on gender, race and lgbt; but going back to De Gaulle, he did say that there is no permanent alliance, only permanent interest. He knew that alliance with US is not everlasting and was correct to de-couple. France has its own interest for sure, but their policy is to first build cultural, political and military solidarity with Europe, which would translate to alliance.
So block them already. On IP level.
Wouldn’t mind it if X got blocked in the EU.
I would mind. I would be absolutely excites if they got banned in EU.
France is going to probe their X one way or another.
Didn't Elon say the algorithm was going to be open source?
You don't say...
