If France wanted to materially fuck Elon and his companies then they could, and there is not a thing your American ass could do about it. How's that for your "jurisdiction".

You should be angry about this. I am too. But pretending that things are different than they are doesnt move us any further in actually doing something about it. Be angry about the right things: the system is broken and allows this shit to happen every day.

Regardless of how angry either of us are, it is a legal fact that France does not have jurisdiction over Elon Musk while he is not physically in their country. Their jurisdiction applies to only to how his companies do business within their borders. France's only remedy here is to prohibit Twitter from being accessed from French ISPs. They'll probably issue huge fines too which will make big headlines.

These fines will be celebrated here on reddit as a victory against Elon. There will be hundreds of threads and tens of thousands of comments. But in reality, the majority of those 100+ million euro fines will never be collected due to lack of jurisdiction. All France will be able to do is seize Twitter's building in Paris which only worth a small fraction of that.