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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wow. Incompatible with what values?? Besides, that's utterly irrelevant; FCC has no authority in how business is conducted inside the EU.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The first amendment, apparently. The constitution DEFENDS my right to harvest data on millions of users and sell it! If that's not freedom, i don't know what is!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I wonder if Protons cuck CEO still thinks the fascists will reign in big tech... Fuckin dumbass.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That power, to spy wholesale on the American public, is the source of a massive amount of wealth and, more importantly, power.

Our elites are never going to give it up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Hey, if it makes you feel any better it's not just the US. The middle east is full of surveillance states, and now european countries want a piece of the pie and are now trying to surveil their population as much as possible.

It's a depressing truth, but there's some solidarity that our struggle is one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Luckily, we have alternatives.

There is an entire ecosystem of software that specifically rejects corporate, centralized, ownership. Self-hosting, while not for everyone, lets you largely stay away from these platforms that are being used to spy on you.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (4 children)

he FCC chairman said Europe's regulations against US firms are "excessive" and "incompatible" with American values.

What values? Greed?
There are some extremely greedy Europeans no doubt. But the most of us pursue a happy life instead of a rich life.

He believes that these laws (...) are suppressing free speech in the EU.

These laws are there because companies feast on them illegally. Is this dude fit being the chairman of the FCC if he can't get that right?

It remains to be seen how the US administration will choose to defend Big Tech against the numerous lawsuits in the EU.

They can do exactly one thing: Nothing. The judicial branch of the EU is completely independent from the other branches, unlike the SCOTUS. Our judges don't care about what nonsense Trump is spouting.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Is this dude fit being the chairman of the FCC

Hahaha! A member of Drumpf’s cabinet that is fit for something! Good one!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

What values? Greed?

Dow Jones.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

What values? Greed?

Apparently, USA values run afoul of the "Western values" and "European values" I hear so widely touted by those people with Roman statue profile pictures.

Edit: /s

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Roman statue profile pictures

What now?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Fascism, that value.

[–] RamblingPanda 26 points 1 month ago

OK, then leave the EU. Bye!

It's about time we start investing in our own future.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Where is Proton CEO Andy Yen?

What about your "rePuBLiCaNs stAND fOr tHe liTtLE gUy"?

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