Ulrich

Point is, it only looks bad if you look at a very specific period of time.

But it’s not happening on any social media platform. These sorts of “challenges” and trends seem to happen almost exclusively on TikTok, for whatever reason.

Not sure what you mean. I use them all the time.

Those textbooks cost pennies. It’s the licenses that were expensive.

You don’t think companies that operate in Turkey

Lemmy is not a company and the users and servers located outside of Turkey are not subject to the jurisdiction of Turkey.

If you’re just going to repeat the same non-sense over and over without any evidence I’m going to block you.

“Free speech absolutism” is not “the best way” to do a God damn thing. This has nothing to do with the “best way” to do anything. It’s about the owner being a pathological fucking liar.

X is.

No it is not. Twitter is a US company with US servers. If you want to argue that the US is now a territory of Turkey, please cite a source.

I did answer your question.

No you didn’t.

The Turkish government has legal authority over companies that are serving their citizens.

No. They don’t. You can keep repeating this non-sense but it’s simply untrue.

It absolutely does when you’re running a business.

It absolutely does not. If you’re running a business you simply don’t refer to yourself as a “free speech absolutist” because it’s fucking stupid.

Companies operating in a country need to follow that countries laws, or they can’t operate in that country. Fact.

Then a “free speech absolutist” would stop operating in that country. Fact.

You don’t seem to understand how the legal system and governments work.

I am not a lawyer but I do understand how jurisdictions work. Elon is not in theirs.

Failure to do so would result in severe consequences for X, such as having to take X offline for all of Turkey.

If he were a “free speech absolutist” as he claims, he would let them.

You didn’t answer my question.

that’s being pedantic

It’s not. At all.

they would either have to block their instance from all Turkish users, or comply.

No, they wouldn’t. Once again, Turkey has no authority over people and servers not located in their jurisdiction.

It’s not important. Elon did not say “I’m a free speech absolutist within the confines of the law”. Free speech absolutism does not make exceptions for law.

Further, those legal demands were made by a foreign country with no authority over him or his company. Here’s some helpful context: Elon doesn’t even recognize the local authority but suddenly he bends knee to authority demanded from the other side of the planet? Nah.

Publications LOOOOVE to write these articles and then sit on them until the stock gets like a 1-day 5% drop so they can misrepresent the situation. Take a look back 6 months or 12 mos. and it’s even greater.

Theoretically yes, but the software would obviously not allow that.

I mean that’s fairly standard with EVs in general.

Tesla is not the only one guilty of this, unfortunately. It seems to be standard practice in the industry now.

If you want a narrative, look at all the full-price $250k Roadster pre-orders they’ve been holding onto for like 8 years now with zero signs of production and complete silence for the last…5 years?

The context is in the article in the OP. It doesn’t really matter. Elon is notoriously apathetic about the law. He could choose not to comply as he does so very often and realistically face very little in the way of repercussions. But that’s how little he actually cares about free speech.

if they don’t they will face criminal charges

The Turkish government does not have the authority to enforce criminal charges on an American person/company.

Even fediverse instance owners would be forced to block his accounts under threat of fines and/or prosecution.

Only if the instance owners/servers were in Turkey.

I think it has lost meaning.

It has. Completely. Basically what it means today is “people who disagree with me” and should be regarded as such. Unfortunately the actual nazis will fly under the radar now.