The era of unchecked tech monopolies is over.
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The era of unchecked tech monopolies is over.
We're taking decisive action to enforce open, fair, and contestable digital markets. Our measures had real consequences:
️ Fined major platforms for anti-competitive practices and ignoring consumer data choices
Required strict hardware interoperability for smartwatches and connected wearables
️ Launched three investigations into dominance in cloud services and into search engines hiding mediaAccountability is here
https://link.europa.eu/YTddh6@EUCommission While I appreciate this, the sentence "ignoring consumer data choices" is funny while we are forcing sensitive data to be exposed via #IDVerification
Fighting monopolies is one thing, but shall be done properly.
One example could be Valve's Steam store. It is rather a monopoly and even most Valve fans agree on this, however, it has little to no competition. Others provide less features & worse experience.
So we shall embrace competition than just blindly "fight" monopolies.
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the inevitable flood of whiny reply guy shit under every EUCommission post. pointless, dreary, insufferable, entitled. also, some is outright trollfarm
i suppose this is just the way social media is. still, it's pathetic
lazy cynicism is mindless and cheap
if that's your online identity?
guess what: this is what fascism wants from you: compliant and resigned. cynicism is capitulation. that's the psyop
i should know, i'm american
and so: that's a warning, europe
@benroyce @EUCommission yes I'm cynical towards the EU because shit gets progresively worse and very little meaningful action is ever taken, while "slowly" but surely everything gets sold as scraps to whoever the fucking highest bidder.
Everyone on this cursed continent should have a deep thought (and action!) about what relationship they want with this planet.
Like who the fuck do you think you are as a fucking american to tell me, a person who resides in a place that has a heavy say in what the EU is to shut up and be happy? Fucking unbelievable jfc.
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The era of unchecked tech monopolies has only just begun, with you and #vonDerLeyen taking "decisive action" and blocking #DMA sanctions for Google.
The sheer audacity of your bragging with such an obvious lie.
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@EUCommission That does not answer my question.
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the inevitable flood of whiny reply guy shit under every EUCommission post. pointless, dreary, insufferable, entitled. also, some is outright trollfarm
i suppose this is just the way social media is. still, it's pathetic
lazy cynicism is mindless and cheap
if that's your online identity?
guess what: this is what fascism wants from you: compliant and resigned. cynicism is capitulation. that's the psyop
i should know, i'm american
and so: that's a warning, europe
Oh, not to worry - the reality on the ground is nowhere near the mouthpieces you see online.
European politics are turning right, yes - but extremism is generally kept at bay in the real world. You'll always have the outliers shouting the loudest and claiming to speak for the oppressed and the minorities, demanding everyone else respects their ekstremist views while respecting no one.
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the inevitable flood of whiny reply guy shit under every EUCommission post. pointless, dreary, insufferable, entitled. also, some is outright trollfarm
i suppose this is just the way social media is. still, it's pathetic
lazy cynicism is mindless and cheap
if that's your online identity?
guess what: this is what fascism wants from you: compliant and resigned. cynicism is capitulation. that's the psyop
i should know, i'm american
and so: that's a warning, europe
@benroyce @xri @EUCommission So, pointing out that the statements the EU commission makes are contradictory to their actual policies is mindless cynicism? The fact that they say this and then let google walk away is irrelevant? Stop looking at vibes and start looking at actual policies. The commission has been consistently bad on digital rights (among other things) and they have to be called out if we want to preserve our rights.
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Oh, not to worry - the reality on the ground is nowhere near the mouthpieces you see online.
European politics are turning right, yes - but extremism is generally kept at bay in the real world. You'll always have the outliers shouting the loudest and claiming to speak for the oppressed and the minorities, demanding everyone else respects their ekstremist views while respecting no one.
thank you
you are of course right
my only complaint then is how mastodon has had a number of high profile accounts hounded off by this endless sort of reply guy negativity
it would be a shame to lose this one as well, simply for the sake of these whiny entitled assholes
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@benroyce @xri @EUCommission So, pointing out that the statements the EU commission makes are contradictory to their actual policies is mindless cynicism? The fact that they say this and then let google walk away is irrelevant? Stop looking at vibes and start looking at actual policies. The commission has been consistently bad on digital rights (among other things) and they have to be called out if we want to preserve our rights.
1. it's not contradictory. unless you're an immature "I WANT PERFECT NOW" sort of loser
2. google fucking sucks. the EU should get rid of it. it doesn't happen like flipping a light switch, political science professor. i would ask you to show some maturity and allow things to play out, but i refer to point #1on the contrary what you have is useless immature whiners endlessly nitpicking and achieving nothing except their own bile pointlessly destroying mastodon
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@benroyce @EUCommission yes I'm cynical towards the EU because shit gets progresively worse and very little meaningful action is ever taken, while "slowly" but surely everything gets sold as scraps to whoever the fucking highest bidder.
Everyone on this cursed continent should have a deep thought (and action!) about what relationship they want with this planet.
Like who the fuck do you think you are as a fucking american to tell me, a person who resides in a place that has a heavy say in what the EU is to shut up and be happy? Fucking unbelievable jfc.
i don't want you to shut up and be happy. mainly because you'll never be happy, you're an entitled whiner. you want perfect now, and if you don't get it, you shit everywhere and act like you're helping. you're not helping, you're exercising your low character: mindless cynicism
cynicism is acceptance: "everything sucks and then you die, waah"
ignorant. useless
you're fodder for fascism
i say this as an american, as a warning:
MAGA and people like you made us shit
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1. it's not contradictory. unless you're an immature "I WANT PERFECT NOW" sort of loser
2. google fucking sucks. the EU should get rid of it. it doesn't happen like flipping a light switch, political science professor. i would ask you to show some maturity and allow things to play out, but i refer to point #1on the contrary what you have is useless immature whiners endlessly nitpicking and achieving nothing except their own bile pointlessly destroying mastodon
@benroyce @xri @EUCommission There was an approved fine ready to take place and the commissioner who has btw been involved in a few scandals, scrapped it without any explanation. This is contradictory to their statement and it is our right to call it out. When you also add ai scanners and digital ids, you begin to understand that they push policies sold to them by tech lobbyists against our interests. Sorry, but I will use what little power I have in here to counter their influence.
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@benroyce @xri @EUCommission There was an approved fine ready to take place and the commissioner who has btw been involved in a few scandals, scrapped it without any explanation. This is contradictory to their statement and it is our right to call it out. When you also add ai scanners and digital ids, you begin to understand that they push policies sold to them by tech lobbyists against our interests. Sorry, but I will use what little power I have in here to counter their influence.
right but it's an orthogonal topic to what EUCommission posted. do you like what they posted? it's good isn't it?
you don't care. what you're interested in is uselessly whining, harassing someone who runs a social media account who has no control over that. it's ineffectual and shows you not to be interested in genuine change, but just being a lazy cynical whiner
a lot of people use social media this way. it is of course fucking stupid and pathetic
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right but it's an orthogonal topic to what EUCommission posted. do you like what they posted? it's good isn't it?
you don't care. what you're interested in is uselessly whining, harassing someone who runs a social media account who has no control over that. it's ineffectual and shows you not to be interested in genuine change, but just being a lazy cynical whiner
a lot of people use social media this way. it is of course fucking stupid and pathetic
"Sorry, but I will use what little power I have"
yeah, avenues exist for you to use a little power. reply guying EUCommission in line with anti-EU troll agendas is not it, deep thinker
nevermind it takes time to play out. "I WANT PERFECT NOW" is your only guide, because you're not a serious person. you're just a useless whiner
i'm not insulting you. that is objectively what you have chosen your online identity to be
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"Sorry, but I will use what little power I have"
yeah, avenues exist for you to use a little power. reply guying EUCommission in line with anti-EU troll agendas is not it, deep thinker
nevermind it takes time to play out. "I WANT PERFECT NOW" is your only guide, because you're not a serious person. you're just a useless whiner
i'm not insulting you. that is objectively what you have chosen your online identity to be
@benroyce @xri @EUCommission What I am asking here is the bare minimum. There is nothing perfect in wanting for the procedure to be followed and not be stopped without explanation in favor of one of the worst corporations. You are insulting me because you don't have an answer to this reasonable critique and you just want me to shut up through bullying. I won't play into this, either respond on the merits of the argument politely as I do or don't respond at all.
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@EUCommission "Fined major platforms for anti-competitive practices and ignoring consumer data choices" Really? Didn't von der Leyen block some? It makes one feel American Corporations are more important than Citizens.
@phl @EUCommission Gotta keep the americans sweet, lol!
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@benroyce @xri @EUCommission What I am asking here is the bare minimum. There is nothing perfect in wanting for the procedure to be followed and not be stopped without explanation in favor of one of the worst corporations. You are insulting me because you don't have an answer to this reasonable critique and you just want me to shut up through bullying. I won't play into this, either respond on the merits of the argument politely as I do or don't respond at all.
"What I am asking here is the bare minimum"
i stopped reading here. that is a telling lie or a flawed self-delusion. you are asking for perfect, right now. if you don't get it, you will haughtily complain and berate. to a god damn *social media PR account*. what a fucking farce. you are a deeply unserious person
don't worry about it, the world is groaning under the weight of self-entitled karens. you're a dime a dozen
and such low characters helped to kill the USA
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The era of unchecked tech monopolies is over.
We're taking decisive action to enforce open, fair, and contestable digital markets. Our measures had real consequences:
️ Fined major platforms for anti-competitive practices and ignoring consumer data choices Required strict hardware interoperability for smartwatches and connected wearables️ Launched three investigations into dominance in cloud services and into search engines hiding mediaAccountability is here
https://link.europa.eu/YTddh6@EUCommission
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