When a company has a total monopoly over a sector, you are obliged to use the service they provide or you will simply go without that service entirely.

Twitter is not a clear example of this, because it doesn't really have a solid monopoly. But Google and Facebook certainly are - there really isn't a competitor to YouTube or Google Search, and there isn't a competing social network to Facebook.

> There are multiple levels of fines. It starts at hundreds of thousand of euros but it can reach up to 4% of the global annual revenue of the company with severe cases.

How can these euro countries claim to be free societies when they restrict the most basic element of personal freedom?

It's not just France. Several of the euro countries have laws like this.

[0]: https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/14/france-passes-law-forcing-...

> stop acting like what gets posted or removed from twitter is anything other than a bullshit triviality

Should we not care about something that gets removed from Twitter because the French or German or Chinese government didn't want it there?

The most Twitter can do is tell you to find somewhere else to publish your speech. The most the French / German / Chinese government can do is destroy your entire life and the lives of everyone who publishes or consumes your speech.

So when a government leader starts talking about suppressing critical speech, that's a lot more worrisome than Twitter deleting tweets. The abuse of power is hardly comparable. You might even say that in comparison, it's a bullshit triviality.

There's nothing to reconcile. A social media website is not at all like a government, I don't see what the laws in Europe have to do with that.

> stop acting like what gets posted or removed from twitter is anything other than a bullshit triviality

Should we not care about something that gets removed from Twitter because the French or German or Chinese government didn't want it there?