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Comment by abfaqb | Hacker News Reader

The reddit-tier answers here are downright scary. Have you considered not using a service if you dislike it so much? You don't have to drag the rest of us with you.

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You actually find the service meaningful and useful - go figure - when I go on it , it serves me up a pile of excrement.

I would not mourn the demise of that cesspool.

I don't use it. But that doesn't mean that I'm not affected by the harm it causes, and the hatred and misinformation that it spreads among people.

I believe that the overall impact that Twitter has is a negative one, so if they withdraw from Europe then (to me), that would be a positive thing and something to celebrate.

You could say that of every social network that allows people to post whatever they desire. Of course I know there are many people who would rather see us go back to when only an approved set of people were given a microphone. There will always be authoritarians.

I'm not calling for Twitter should be banned, I'm saying that if it chooses to block access to European user then I think that's a good thing, especially if the reason that they're doing that is their refusal to follow EU law. In exactly the same way that I wouldn't shed any tears if Stormfront decided to block access to Europe.

I came from the other thread to see if there were any quality comments here and there's two users who even went to the "lengths" of crossposting their low effort comments from the other thread to this one. Very much feels like Reddit.

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