[codesuela]

It is impossible to run anything like Twitter in Germany without being sued into oblivion for defamation etc and get struck with criminal charges for something a user posted. Germanys equivalent of cease and desist letters (Abmahnungen) make running a big site with user generated content very unattractive.

[llcoolv]

Or accidentally trigger a three-strike rule or infringe some odd sentence in the 300k pages of regulations that concern your business... Europe is not going to have a big tech company (or even mid-sized for that matter) until this legal approach changes in an extreme way.

[MagnumOpus]

VZ/poolworks managed to do just fine for a decade, c&d didn’t kill them. (Shrinking user numbers did as people migrated to FB.)