I had to update the pic; forgot the biggest culprit -Microsoft. They got slapped with a fine of $731 million. I try not to think about this company at all but I had to fix it. The meme gods had to be appeased.
Also, I remember that Nextflix only bent the knee by agreeing to 30% of their content being local, but really tempted to add 'em.
Hopefully the Next Flex will be Netflix - for the meme-ability. Elon won't do it, he would have already done. He is just exercising free speech, nothing more. If he does get in the ring, then I'll join X 😬 & pay his subscription for a year. 👀
Add end to end encryption to the mix. They've been doing so well until they messed with that.
They haven't messed with it yet. The EU's a democracy and we can still influence its course.
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Thing about that one is that the whole scanning thing will extremely likely get overturned by the courts and thus this whole thing would collapse. If they ever get a majority at all.
Let's hope so
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I realised something. If all of these big tech firms collectively banded together and left the EU market in joint protest towards their regulations, how quickly would these countries go into civil unrest?
Social media addiction is no joke…
About as quickly as alternative platforms can replace them because of the incredible market advantage.
Lemmy, Threads and Mastodon proved they just move to the next network.
Threads is a terrible example of this. They just made everyone with an instagram account there. Not saying the others are better examples, mastodon has quite the user numbers by now but is probably still too niche in use.
Yeah all 2k of you. Lemmy is an absolute failure in bringing in new users at a commercial failure. No way most of the population is going to go on here with tankie communist admins banning people left and right, and talks about defederation every week from the rest.
This is peak.
Calling Lemmy a commercial failure shows a massive lack of understanding of even the basics of what Lemmy is.
🙄 I'm sure these servers will pay for themselves and admins are going to keep on doing their own csam scan each week and deal with the reporting for free forever.
The donations go away. The goodwill goes away. Successful open source communities always get commercial backing.
Bluesky is the likely winner here if anything.
Lemmy is not a commercial project, you're thinking about it the wrong way. It's run for free by volunteers.
Open source projects without commercial backing die. Especially when they require infrastructure and aren't personal services eg *are + jellyfin. You don't have to like it but nearly every single one with a long life span has commercial support up or down stream.
Go back to reddit.
No.
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Yeah, extremist political instances like hexbear and Lemmygrad are killing Lemmy.
I'd be embarrassed to even tell anyone I use it in it's current state, but I'm still hopeful it can clean up and be good.
I'm somewhat hopeful lemmy world has the idea, but I'm less hopeful the community is going to keep the lights on with bills.
Yeah that's a hurdle the fediverse has yet to address.
It would be nice with alternative platforms, but I think each and everyone of the originals would break the coalition attempting to screw the rest over and gain the market, long before alternatives could be made.
I don't think these sites have anything inherent that can't be replicated and replaced rather quickly
I mean, the established userbase and subsequently communities. That's why I still look at Reddit sometimes, there are some communities that aren't effectively on the Fediverse due to lack of users.
But yeah. forcing the entire population out of a social media plattform by leaving the EU would change this quickly.
Man i hope so. That would be the wet dream of any free alernative and startup
People might actually get some rest. The last few years have been hectic due to social media.
I see your point though. Like how people took to the streets to protest the change of coca cola in '85. One protester went as far as say:“This makes me angry. I'm angry, and I'm mad. I feel injured. Betrayed. Like a sacred trust has been violated … People are having anxiety headaches. They've been placed in a distressed state."
… because New Coke didn't taste the same - they had to go back to coke 'classic'. 🤷♂️
Because there are no alternatives?
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Also EU: Strip all of your clothes, just in case you are hiding CSAM in them pockets.
What's up with Marriott?
Marriott Hit With £18.4 Million GDPR Fine Over Massive 2018 Data Breach.
Source:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlypage/2020/10/30/marriott-hit-with-184-million-gdpr-fine-over-massive-2018-data-breach/I didn't even add all the companies, running out of floor space lol. I only added those with multi-million euro fines. Many omitted for settling unspecified amounts.
First post - K.O.
US gets more consumer protections against predatory practices from EU authorities than US ones at this point…
why is british airways there
For being in a "cargo cartel". source SkyNews: British Airways is among 11 airlines that have been fined a total of €776m (£674m)
