“Senior ministers are considering whether it is appropriate for them to continue to use the platform, with Enterprise Minister Peter Burke saying the Government should make a “collective decision” about whether to stay on X.”
Most US Big Tech firms have their European HQ in Ireland, so that country plays an outsized role in regulating them. Although some EU law is administered continent-wide, much of it is administered in the individual country of jurisdiction. So Twitter/X refusing to meet Irish government ministers to answer their questions about Grok AI’s creation of child porn, and its distribution on X, has implications for X & Grok’s European-wide operations.
If the Irish government abandons X, it’s almost certain other EU governments will follow. This all seems part of a break-up trend where the divergence between the EU and the US is accelerating. The US says it wants to end the EU. Perhaps in return the EU will want to end the role US Big Tech plays on the continent.
There’s no good argument for remaining on twitter. It’s just enabling, at this point.