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How Europe could thwart Elon Musk's free-speech plans for Twitter

Two major pieces of legislation take a very different view of what's allowed

Casey Newton
Apr 26
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EU Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton at a hearing last month in Brussels. (Thierry Monasse / Getty Images)
EU Commissioner for Internal Market Thierry Breton at a hearing last month in Brussels. (Thierry Monasse / Getty Images)

Say you are an eccentric billionaire who has recently committed to spending $44 billion to buy Twitter on one simple premise: allow all speech on the platform that is legal.

It is an idea that, whenever you mention it, seems to drive pe…

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