I moved away from twitter in October/November '22, not long after it was bought by Musk.

I completely locked my accounts and deactivated them in June of '23 (I won't delete them because I don't want the handles recycled).

I hate what twitter has become; what its new owner has done to it.

But -- and here comes the unpopular opinion -- it is 100% wrong for any country to require a commercial website to employ someone local for the sole purpose of arresting and punishing that person for the continued presence of information *on* that website.

Sure, if the law allows for it, ban the website; block it, even (if you can); refuse to use it (imagine the damage twitter would suffer if politicians, political parties and government departments just stopped using the fucking thing!?!?!?). But, in a world where someone (i.e. a person) is supposed be considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, requiring that a member of staff be imprisoned because of the decisions of the CEO is not just. It's literally a human rights violation.

Don't cheer that.

Ever.

Even if it's twitter or some other website that can reasonably be described as a horrible hellsite.

Because if you do cheer it, then, when a corrupt judge comes along (say, one appointed by Victor Orban or Narendra Modi) and decides that a news organisation (say, Reuters or Associated Press) has reported "false propaganda" and sends a totally innocent member of staff to prison, they will use as part-justification your cheering of it having happened with twitter.

P.S. As a demonstration of how stupid these types of "hostage taking" laws are, imagine anyone, but particularly someone with a family they love and that loves them, applying for the following job on LinkedIn: "Open position: Country director. Responsible for maintaining companies offices in the country, including representing the company in prison for underdetermined periods of time for decisions made in HQ."