You can be certain that if you’re upsetting Trump, Musk, and Zuckerberg, whatever you’re doing is making the world a better place.
Maybe EU should just take a page from US playbook and ban these services due to national security concerns.
I mean Musk is clearly trying to influence European politics with fake news, half truths and downright lies. Not all that different from Kremlins troll factories.
The European Union seems powerless to counter the assault
Oh please. These pissbaby techbros wouldn’t be crying so much if they weren’t hit where it hurts. It usually takes a while for the wheels of EU bureaucracy to turn, but the following blow is all the harder for it.
As someone who is very happy to live in the EU and proud of what it has achieved so far, I can say: Fuck you Trump and your appendant ulcers!
Hey, EU? You aren’t beholden to any of these chucklefucks. Show them the door.
the Exit door right? don’t ever let them in!
They can respectfully choke on my massive GDPR
“We’re going to work with President Trump to push back on governments around the world that are going after American businesses,” he declared.
Yeah, we know already that you have no interest in a fair market.
Imagine this kind of talk coming out of China.
You mean wolf warrior rhetoric? I’ve heard plenty of that and it’s just as cringe. Europe and the rest of the world has to step up to these bullies before they swallow everything that’s good about our Democracies.
I don’t know what wolf warrior is and I’m kind of afraid to ask.
Of look. Here’s my zero fucks.
I forget the name of it but there is a little known agreement that means digital services aren’t taxed. Example, I can offshore workers who connect to a server in the EU and performs work.
It covers things like Netflix streaming to EU customers without Netflix being taxed.
If you think about it this is a little odd. After all, goods are taxed when imported, why not digital services?
The EU is often criticised for having no digital leader. Switching that tax free hose off might resolve that.
For fascists, there must always be a target.
I feel like in this case, it’s more than that. They’ve weaponized social media and successfully used that weapon within their own borders and now they’re targeting somewhere else. They want to freely push right wing ideologies and make right wing politicians look good everywhere. Says a lot that in order to achieve that, they need to do things like remove fact checking. But it’s been proven now that ‘alternate facts’ are very effective at convincing masses of people that you’re a free speech warrior while burning books in their faces, or that you care about the kids while campaigning for child marriage and child labour, just for a couple of examples.
It’s convinced working class people that union busting, eternally greedy, multi-billionaires are their ‘anti-establishment’ heroes. And it’s convinced whiny, insecure, porn addicted men that they’re all ‘alphas’, every one of them.
We’re entering an era where freedom=slavery and it didn’t even require any master plan or deception. All it relied on was the fact that people are inherently shitty and only see and hear what they want to see and hear. And it worked. The people they worship or openly slimeballs and garbage human beings for us all to see with our own eyes. But it worked.
Lots of commentators seem to be under the impression that the EU is going to stand up against the US and Big Tech. My impression is the exact opposite; they are going to roll over. The EU is pretty good at throwing its weight around in areas where the US is not paying attention and doesn’t feel its interests are at stake. But in areas where the US wants to elbow the EU out of the way, it does so pretty effortlessly, and Brussels just looks embarrassed and tries to forget anything happened.
If there was a GPS for doing the right thing, annoying the Cheeto, Elmo and Zuckershit would be waypoints in all of the offered route alternatives.
Surprised pikachu face.
Paywalled, can’t read.
Here you go:
that solves the paywall issue but the poor guy still can’t read
This guy 😂 take my upvote
Bring back public spanking as a punishment.
