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Google has been ignoring the sherman anti-monopoly laws for decades -
using their monopoly to subsidize and control other industries (eg youtube)
Democrats control our courts and give it a pass
All politicians fall in to four categories on this.
Retarded boomers who don't understand dick shit and therefore cannot be counted on to do anything.
Those having their pockets filled with lobbyist shekels.
Political operatives who have a weaponized interest in the outcome.
"What are you complaining about? Line go up!!!"
Literally nobody cares otherwise. Europe is fucked up but at least they have some major legislation in place to protect consumers, like the GDPR.
You can't be serious. The GDPR is a bad joke that exists for the EU to use revenue from fines to subsidize their failing welfare state.
At least go with something like the "Directive on repair of goods" that may actually help a customer someday, despite it being wrapped up in "green" nonsense.
Won't someone think of the poor tech companies?
The GDPR is a massive package of privacy protections. Tech companies cried about it for a reason and not because it was 'poor little us', it was because it shut off their revenue stream of monetizing "free" customer data.
The entire reason for the cookies opt-out we have now is because of the EU. Wow, how terrible, making websites tell you what bullshit they're secretly installing on your computer without your knowledge and consent. How awful! Someone fetch my fainting couch!
California has the CCPA/CPRA which gives legal enforcement for customers wanting tech companies to fuck off and not monetize their data.
Article 17 of the GDPR forces tech companies to delete all your personal data upon request.
Literally fuck right off to hell with your shitty defense of 'big tech'. How many of those poor wittle trillionaire companies have gone out of business because of "fines to subsidize their failing welfare state"?
Oh right, literally fucking zero have. They have more money than ever before. So fuck them. These companies are shit and offer nothing of value but fake make-work nonsense to prop up fake economies with business that produce nothing. If Europe wants to liquidate them into nothingness, why should I care? A shitty evil government vs. shitty evil corporations and you think I'm gonna root for winners there?
It's not a defense of "big tech." It's a defense of small tech.
Facebook and Twitter can afford massive compliance departments. Any potential new competitors can't. It's regulatory capture, plain and simple. And you go lick the boots of the government/tech partnership because they've convinced you that their monopoly is making you safer.
Did your precious crony regulations stop a single one of the things you just complained about?
Said as he defends the people importing infinite illegal Muslims and the guys demanding the infinite H1B imports.
Because it's retarded. It exists so an army of bureaucrats in Brussels can get a pat on the back every time a cookie sneaks through without a pop-up window because it means a couple more million Euros to spend on Mohammed.
It accomplishes fuck all and inconveniences everyone. I really hope the EU goes the way of China and throws up the Berlin Firewall because the rest of the world is tired of them fucking with the Internet. They can reign over their little walled-off network of subjects.
GDPR has done fuck all to protect consumers. As a matter of fact it allowed companies like Google to remove consumer owned content from places like the Play Store. It resulted in a massive robbing of consumer digital goods with zero recourse. And that was just the start. It's also resulted in endless popups all over the web, all the while boxing out small players by forcing them to jump endless hoops over tracking they never wanted to implement but were forced into because all the industry tools (conveniently made by big corporations) require it, wasting endless time and money they don't have to spare.
Imagine bootlicking the EU for regulatory capture, forced thievery, and shitting up the web with popups well beyond the scale of the worst we saw in the 00s. Funny how these consumer protections only ever harm the consumer while ensuring more monopolies for big companies, huh.