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Comment by fred_is_fred

5 months ago

How is Germany going to enforce this? President Musk doesn't seem to be subject to any laws to me.

Many of the largest US companies has local branches in Europe, and twitter is no exception here. In this case they have a branch office in Berlin. Im not a lawyer so Im not sure about the exact details, but if there is local presence then they are subject to the laws of that country like any other company, and enforcement should be similar.

  • Should be similar but I argue Elon is a special case of someone who never faces consequences after court decisions.

He's not subject to your laws, the EU isn't a state of your union.

  • He's not subject to any law that I can see. Hence my question, what will EU courts do here? Elon does not care what any courts or governments have told him so far. In the end I think he will threaten something with his German factories and everyone will back down. He's not going to get arrested or anything.