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Simple. Shut off Texas. You don’t have a right to use social media. I wouldn’t even appeal the decision. Let Texas lie in the bed they made.

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Didn't happen with EU's internet laws. Instead, we get cookie banners all over the world. I don't think exiting a market full of money because of ideology is good business.

There's a few sites (e.g. local city news sites) that return 451 status code for EU IP addresses

Sure, but they have no "customers" in the EU. Quite the opposite with these platforms.

This year "Meta" basically said they might have to leave the EU. Some of the reactions were "and good riddance !".

To be fair, it's the USA, starting with the police-state-like Patriot Act, that basically made US companies illegal in the EU...

(I don't remember if there were any revelations in the Snowden scandal about Facebook helping the NSA to spy on EU citizens, companies, governments... IIRC the documents (we got) talked mostly about Google and Microsoft ?)

If Texas were shut off from social media, would net mental health and productivity of Texans increase?

I say we do the experiment and find out!

My exurban Texan neighbors wouldn't be able to post their dog whistles on the neighborhood FB page. Oh! Woe is me!

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