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Comment by BrandoElFollito

9 hours ago

The authorities will request the keys for local servers and will get them. As for remote ones (outside of France jurisdiction) it depends where they are and how much X wants to make their life difficult.

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ramuel  9 hours ago

Musk and X don't seem to be the type to care about any laws or any compelling legal requests, especially from a foreign government. I doubt the French will get anything other than this headline.

  • Retric  9 hours ago

    Getting kicked out of the EU is extremely unattractive for Twitter. But the US also has extradition treaties so that’s hardly the end of how far they can escalate.

  • shawabawa3  8 hours ago

    If I'm an employee working in the X office in France, and the police come in and show me they have a warrant for all the computers in the building and tell me to unlock the laptop, I'm probably going to do that, no matter what musk thinks

    • formerly_proven  8 hours ago

      Witnesses can generally not refuse in these situations, that's plain contempt and/or obstruction. Additionally, in France a suspect not revealing their keys is also contempt (UK as well).

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  • Teever  9 hours ago

    The game changed when Trump threatened the use of military force to seize Greenland.

    At this point a nuclear power like France has no issue with using covert violence to produce compliance from Musk and he must know it.

    These people have proven themselves to be existential threats to French security and France will do whatever they feel is necessary to neutralize that threat.

    Musk is free to ignore French rule of law if he wants to risk being involved in an airplane accident that will have rumours and conspiracies swirling around it long after he’s dead and his body is strewn all over the ocean somewhere.