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by latexr 1325 days ago
> Twitter is a US company. It needs to follow US laws and it can ignore laws of all countries that are not the USA.

Twitter needs to follow the laws of countries it wants to operate in. By your logic Apple wouldn’t need to change to USB-C in iPhones¹ because it’s a European law and Apple is a US company.

¹ https://www.businessinsider.com/usb-c-iphone-coming-apple-no...

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Apple has presence in EU (and elsewhere) which exposes them to the whims of local governments. Without local offices, employees, subsidiaries and a product to sell Twitter can ignore all other countries and their laws.
Just last year Twitter blocked over 500 accounts because the Indian government didn’t like the criticism: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/technology/india-twitter....