• Auth@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    EU please stop, you were suppose to save us from American Tech abuse not join them.

    • Something Burger 🍔@jlai.lu
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      2 months ago

      It’s a monkey’s paw situation. Sure, the EU will protect us from American tech abuse… and implement the same policies internally.

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      2 months ago

      It was never about freedom, but about restoring control of European governments over their citizens’ online presence and their data, so that everything they do on the internet is subject to European laws and regulations, not American ones.

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        2 months ago

        And much of that driven by lobbyism by the same media empires who are trying to get rid of ad blockers.