The town square is burning

If governments can’t stand up to Twitter, says Jon Honeyball, then it’s down to us.

OPINION | ONE MORE THING There’s a standoff happening between the American tech giants and governments around the world. Google is under significant pressure in the US, with calls for it to be split up. Apple faces legal challenges from EU regulators, having recently been forced to support other app stores within the EU. Then there’s the EU’s new digital antitrust law, which has Meta, Google and Apple in its sights. But there is also another battle brewing over who controls the operation of a global social media company within a country. Despite predictions to the contrary, Twitter (I refuse to call it X) is still going. And it’s more problematic than ever. Musk’s insistence that Twitter is the one true place where speech is unfettered is causing huge problems…

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