Has Musk Just cancelled X and Starlink for Europe?

[BADecker]

It seems that musk is pulling X and Starlink out of Europe. It will all be turned off on February ONE... less than a week away. The why is that the various European governments, and particularly Brussels, are not allowing freedom. Musk would rather be stubborn than comply like a bunch of other big companies did.

I'm guessing that Europe's governments might do something. They have only two choices:
1. Start their own Musk-like companies to take over. But there isn't much time for this to be done without a big break in access to certain media.
2. Other big tech companies can be bargained with, to take over the media that Musk is leaving behind. Starlink media will not be easy to fill.
3. Pay Musk an appropriately BIG sum to come back. The question is, how stubborn is he?
4. Other big companies are considering leaving Europe. Europe has become a big Newsom-California-style money grab.

All of this is playing right into Trump's hands... regarding Greenland, Canada Provinces to become States, and a host of other little ways.

What do any of you think about this?

[FinneysTrueVision]

X has had no issue complying with Israel’s demands. They suspended their own chatbot for its statements calling their actions in Gaza a genocide.



I couldn’t find any credible source confirming that Musk’s companies are leaving Europe. That is a lot of money for him to sacrifice. I do remember last year that many posts were either censored or required age verification in certain countries. He has already been complying, even if it’s what they call malicious compliance. I don’t see why they would stop now and pull out completely.

[montaga]

Europe or EU?
Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia, Belarus, Turkey, UK, Channel Islands, Greenland, Andorra, San Marino, Moldova, Vatican City, Monaco, Russia (Moscow), Ukraine (largely depended on Starlink) also not part of EU Iceland, Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein

[o48o]

Europe or EU?
Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, Bosnia, Belarus, Turkey, UK, Channel Islands, Greenland, Andorra, San Marino, Moldova, Vatican City, Monaco, Russia (Moscow), Ukraine (largely depended on Starlink) also not part of EU Iceland, Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein

Assuming that badecker would know the difference is pretty generous. Sources or truth doesn't matter to him. Funny enough he wasn't even pushing fake news and snake oil links this time.

Obviously this post is insinuating conflicts with EU. Musk isn't complying with EU regulations, and now EU is launching investigation on Elon's CSAM generator, so Elon is big mad.

And good riddance, commerce works both ways. It's dangerous for any single entity to get a monopoly on something that we would need to rely on. When it comes to Twitter, we don't need Elon, or his circle jerk "freedom" service, where you can get censored if you don't agree with him.

[Agbamoni]

3. Pay Musk an appropriately BIG sum to come back. The question is, how stubborn is he?

He is stubborn enough not to care about Europe.
Starlink is the best network provider so far, with over 67% and more of their entire poloulation use starlink. It will be a big problem if Musk decides to cancel his companies from operating in Europe, because so many business depends on him. This time around, everything is in favor of Musk 

[BADecker]

3. Pay Musk an appropriately BIG sum to come back. The question is, how stubborn is he?

He is stubborn enough not to care about Europe.
Starlink is the best network provider so far, with over 67% and more of their entire poloulation use starlink. It will be a big problem if Musk decides to cancel his companies from operating in Europe, because so many business depends on him. This time around, everything is in favor of Musk 

Guess what people in Europe are. They are people.

Guess what European leaders are. They are people.

When is Europe going to stop depending on Musk and America, and start forcing their leaders to do what is right?

Guess what people in America are. They are people.

Guess what American leaders are. They are people.

If Europeans stupidly want to sit around and do nothing about their condition, how can anybody stop them? And doing something doesn't include stealing money and capabilities from America. Already the EU is considering replacements for Musk's technology. But EU leaders didn't play him fairly. And he can afford to leave them.