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Tech Giants Withholding Products Because EU Regulation like GDPR (www.axios.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Does this mean we dont get to be tracked, data mined, ad-bombed, and exploited while our teens dont get depressed and sick from "social" media?

Well, if thats the price we pay, thats the price we pay... :)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This escalation will continue,

until big-tech forces the governments to kneel to the surveillance-capitalism biggest:

They will simply say something like:

"Either your government removes laws, regulations, accountability, etc, from us,

XOR we are hamstringing your country: we OWN you, we POSSESS you, & you will obey OUR rule."

I guarantee this will be happening between now & 2036.

Remember how they can ratchet-up a genocide, anywhere??

They've already done so, in some places..

( Facebook & .. was it Myanmar? as 1 example )

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

until big-tech forces the governments to kneel to the surveillance-capitalism biggest:

You think governments are resisting?

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

Governments without lobbying and revolving doors. Yes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Do you know what an optocoupler is? It's when there's no thermal or electric connection between parts, but the information gets transferred.

This is the same. Government officials don't have to officially communicate with businesses in corrupt ways or allow such "revolving doors".

They may communicate, well, face-to-face unofficially, get kickbacks.

And they also can do things mutually interesting for the business and the official without ever communicating about it, the economic interest is that communication in itself.

And then economic interests are just a subset of power interests. Like surveillance.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I upvoted purely for using xor in regular speech