I don’t think people realize how fantastically destructive the US army could be on a civilian resistance. It would be an absolute slaughter with mid air bursting rounds killing and entire room full of people once they breach a window.

Drone surveillance with no where to run or hide. Complete air superiority. Death would rain down constantly. The weapons of war are truly perverse. Think of the horror of cluster bombs with thousands of bomblets going off at once and hundreds later on for the next ten years randomly killing and maiming people.

To even suggest such horrors is beyond disgusting yet we have a President gleefully suggesting turning the army on his fellow countrymen.

Unbelievably smart move. Now they should make a plan to phase out all US software and contracting with US companies.

We are like a cancer, unfortunately we have already spread all over the world. The rising wealth inequality due to worldwide fascism will be bringing to worst to your country.

The US has poisoned the entire world multiple times and now with global warming and anti-immigration rhetoric (show me the advanced European country that isn’t afraid of Muslims now) we are pretty much guaranteed a prolonged war once everyone flees to escape their countries.

It is going to take a lot of hard work to fix this mess and so far no one has even made a motion to roll up their sleeves.

Pays us to spy on you!

Our elections have always been corrupted to one degree or another. The concept of a popularity contest where the person that makes the most money generally wins is complete bullshit for a democracy.

The government doesn’t have the right to regulate free speech behind the scenes. It has the ability to, but it is considered a violation of free speech for them to do this. Not that anyone cares.

Your secret is safe with us and our 36,893 affiliates.

I will agree with that. Nvidia has been dead to me ever since they went all in for AI.

Good thing picking from the lesser of evils has never gotten us into trouble.

Ah yes, the new world spy/control agency. I shudder to think about the murderous plans they have with AI.

I think it is important to dispell the belief that intimacy fades with time. There are circumstances that no one can control like I experienced, but for the most part there is no reason other than choice for intimacy to go away over the years.

I am glad you have conceded to all my points as you have been unable to refute them. These points are (since your reading comprehension is about zero).

1. Europe governments benefits from big tech surveillance so they are not keen on regulating them in any real way. There is a huge difference between what the people want and what the government wants. While Europe has made some minor strides in increasing the power of the state over corporations they have done almost nothing to increase the power of the people. This is, of course, by design.

2. The meager fines they have placed on big tech are next to nothing, have not even been enforced, will be litigated for the next decade, and most importantly not changing their behavior as they are still breaking the law. With gems like, “Research indicates that 90% of Data Subject Access Requests (DSAR) are not fully respected by companies”.

3. The actual regulations they have passed have benefitted big business because they are the ones with the capital to be able to follow the law which costs a lot in compliance. Furthermore they have the lawyers and ability to fight the fines indefinitely. Too little too late doesn’t even begin to cover the reality we are facing.

You not being able to actually have a conversation about this and instead being in complete denial is the reality here. When you are ready to have a real conversation about Europe getting bent over by big tech I am ready. I won’t hold my breath though because you sure like your high horses

I actually hope you are right and Europe does smack down big tech, reduces corporate influence, and develops its own tech sovereignty. Unfortunately, I know they are actually addicted to spying on their citizens and big tech gives them exactly what they need. Even if they replace them (the only way forward) they will likely just build a similar system themselves.

Here are a few articles I read today. Have fun trying to read your local news. I am sure they will offer tons of insight about this issue.

https://edri.org/our-work/move-fast-and-break-big-techs-power/

https://carnegieendowment.org/research/2025/06/rethinking-eu-digital-policies-from-tech-sovereignty-to-tech-citizenship?lang=en

Why are you so ignorant? Is your default always to pretend you know something that apparently you know nothing about. The European Union kowtowing to big tech because it benefits them is the facts. You pretend they are regulating them and I am just pointing out the obvious that they really aren’t.

I am fairly certain you don’t know shit. Please spare me your garbage pretending 1% of their budget for one year is some big bad penalty and not just an extremely minor cost of doing business.

You provide no evidence to refute anything I have said because I am fucking right and you are just acting like a little bitch boot licker at this point.

You are so fucking delusional it isn’t funny. You think you know but you have not even scratched the surface of what is going on. You denying that the big tech companies have a stranglehold on Europe is hilarious. Show me the proof that Europe has moved away from big tech or even put their foot down.

I mean at this point you are fucking goose stepping towards complete corporate rule (actually you are already there). Europe never had a chance apparently and you think GDPR is going to save you from the dystopia you haven’t even realized you are living in. It wasn’t a bad idea, but it was just the start of what was needed.

Instead of continuing this crusade we get fucking chat control. So pardon me if I am disappointed for you since you don’t have enough sense to be disappointed yourself.

I am so glad you care about your digital footprint, now if you can convince everyone else to do the same perhaps there is some hope left.

Oh lordy you telling me about gobbling up propaganda. Please point out a news outlet besides maybe Techdirt that even approaches what I am saying. The truth is you are the one eating propaganda and puking it all over Lemmy.

Everything I have said is true, you are just fucking clueless. This is why big tech won. You didn’t even fucking know and when someone tells you deny it like an idiot.

You think your nation won against big tech, boy you showed them. Hitting them in their pocket book. With fines amounting to less than 1% of their total revenue in one year. You are playing security theatre in your head.

Go give Meta more of your personal information so they can share it with your government like a good Eurodumbass.

Real facts that 90%+ of all policy written in your country is at the request of corporations?

That the majority of all messaging goes through Whatsapp?

I mean you are so cooked and at the same time in denial it isn’t funny. Every major power’s spy program is wholesale buying information hoovered up Meta and there is no legislation to stop it.

You think you can control big tech but they have already corrupted your governments. They are complicit trading your rights for the convenience of spying on everyone.

So when I say get off your high horse pretending you have some rights and your government is stopping this I mean it. Stop pretending.

He has a real interest for fucking them over considering he tried to blackmail Ukraine, failed, and got impeached for it.

That is why it is insane that he is in charge of anything related to Ukraine. A condition of his treachery should have been minimum no interactions allowed. Congress should have protected Ukraine from Trump.

They are corrupt for allowing Trump to fuck with them again and complicit for ignoring their duty to protect.

Compliance costs which you admit to. You can’t fathom that this legislation benefited big business because you don’t understand what is really going on. That is okay.

Believing any policy passed is not favoring big business is willfully ignoring reality at this point. As I stated, until these privacy violating megacorps are removed there is no privacy. The governments are complicit in this information grab as well.

Frankly, this law may have been a good start. So far I am not impressed.

That makes a lot of sense. A lot of what they do is for perceived injustice against them.

Transparent to them means they can be openly racist, sexist, and general xenophobic cunts.

What you are looking for is honest. They are not honest

Oh please, the entire law creates an undue burden on smaller firms while the larger ones skirt the rules. This continues to benefit big tech (and big business) and until Europe pushes them out completely everything you say is nonsense. If GDPR actually changes how these big companies steal and use data I will gladly eat my hat.