The EU in many ways is essentially an American project, the saying of Henry Kissinger that he wanted to call Europe and get one person on the phone. American domination of Europe and its politics has become total since the second world war. The total corruption of European electoral politics started in Italy but has since spread further. The German green party and law & justice in Poland or a character like Mark Rutte being the most blatant modern example. Europe has totally outsourced its foreign policy to Europe, it's likely behind the scenes that the fed is probably backstopping the solvency of major European banks who have lent considerable sums to over indebted countries. Brussels is a very strange place that has become a strange Anglo transplant inside Europe.

I don't know quite what the EU agenda is when it comes to its overzealous regulatory agenda. The EU is an incredibly dysfunctional institution comprised of people with a zeal for regulation with 3 different bodies full of people without any useful function who are bored with plenty of time on their hands. It could just be a case of the machine running out of control. It could be some kind of petty vindictiveness by European lawmakers to try and hurt American special interests like big tech. Big tech is a mainly American and Chinese phenomenon. The nearest thing Europe has to Google or WeChat is SAP so it makes a ripe target because the blow back is minimal. Or it's a means by which the American regime can circumvent its constitutional handcuffs and the fact its beholden to these tech firms as donors and keep a lid on them by getting Europe to do its dirty work in regulating them. Kind of like how under 5 eyes when the law was still taken seriously the NSA would get GCHQ to spy on its own citizens.

Good point.

If they were to go after American citizens they won't be coming for you themselves. They will get your local police department or the feds to serve a warrant for your extradition.

Well, they won't come to most of our doors. We have installed ramps that keep away law enforcement because they are too "slopey."

Sure, but if he wants to do business, which I'm sure he does, he does have to follow European law. This is the nature of the threat by the EU here. And aside from having X blocked, they could simply have him arrested for breaking their laws, which effectively bans him from going to any EU country.

Now, the thing is, they're a bunch of pussies who will almost certainly do nothing, lest they risk pissing off their social media addled citizens, so in this case Elon made the perfect choice. I guess I'm just a little autistic and felt like pointing this out.

Though I suppose it brings up an interesting question here on globalism. Obviously they want to be able to create their homogenous, global society, which is why they want to control companies like this, but then again, it's hardly globalism, because it's different countries with different rules, and it's the company that decides to venture into these different country's markets. So what is the alternative? Proper globalism would be One Law to Rule Them All, which is no good, but if a company could do business overseas with impunity that would certainly constitute a form of globalism, since it would mean that American companies could act with impunity worldwide while only being beholden to America, who has a vested interest in its companies being the best and most successful. So thinking about it, it would seem to me that what we have right now is as far from a globalist system as it could get, at least regarding the way companies operate overseas.