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See it more like "preventing a website whose owner refuses to comply withEuropean law from operating in the EU".
What do you mean by operating in the EU? Twitter is run from America
operate in != run from
If you want an apt example of a company 'run from' America not allowed to 'operate in' another jurisdiction:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_of_Twitter_in_Brazil
Apparently, it works by fining users that visit the site. See chapter "Blocking".
How nice, a government that puts criminal penalties on it's citizens reading the (according to them) wrong things. Banning technologies like VPNs.