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… :)
oh no, not the products!
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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until big-tech forces the governments to kneel to the surveillance-capitalism biggest:
You think governments are resisting?
Governments without lobbying and revolving doors. Yes.
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.
I upvoted purely for using xor in regular speech
If your “product” is stealing my information for your “AI” or extorting me to buy “dongles”, then please “withhold” it.
Corpo propaganda at it again…
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You might think that but you’re missing cool thing like, ah… the metaverse…?
USA only wishes we were this cool.
Oh dear, how sad, never mind
What’s the easiest EU country to emigrate to?
People are pissed but I actually liked the link, so thank you.
Thanks for taking my joke literally and showing me a new search engine. That Google one seems pretty good. I’ve been using AltaVista and my BBS to find info but that’s way quicker.
Also, if you want to be a smart ass about it, use https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=dikfore
I was gonna one-up you with Lycos but as it turns out, it still works!
Also, if you want to be a smart ass about it, use https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=dikfore
There’s really no reason for you to be rude.
Why do I need a reason?
Google? Yikes
If you have no human principles, Hungary. You just have to buy some papers for it. Maybe learn a hard and useless language. But definitely love corruption and the suffering of other humans.
This is not true. You need to have years of presence OR have Hungarian ancestry and a few years less presence OR be married to a Hungarian for a couple years. Top this off with being able to know the Hungarian language.
Not if you buy the letelepedési kötvény (immigration bonds).
Other countries have a similar system. Canada for example has the Start-up Visa, which requires about C$225k investment, or the Quebec one (now suspended) which required C$1.25m over five years.
From what I can tell, the Hungarian requires somewhere between 200 and 300k EUR. This is not something that is affordable or easy to attain for the average lemmy poster. But again, this also does not guarantee citizenship, just residency.
In short, requesting a work or study visa and then trying for the citizenship test five years later, after having learned the language, is probably a much more attainable way. But still far from the easiest country to emigrate to.
Sounds like it’s working to me.
Zuckbot, comply with GDPR or forget about EU.
In this case I think it’s the DMA they’re butthurt about.
The article mentions both. Meta is still complaining about GDPR.
Threatening a dog with a weiner I see. That’s a bold strategy.
This just in: good time threatened. O no
If the products or “products” being withheld are deemed useful by their users, you’re bound to have someone filling the gap created by the butthurt tech giants leaving. Without all the associated data vulturing.
If we’re really lucky, those replacements might even become competition for the original products outside the EU, and drive the data vultures out of business.
(Something has to go right in this timeline eventually, right?)
Capitalism at its best
I wouldn’t say “capitalism”, given that some of the alternatives filling the gap to be non-commercial in nature.
Free market economy at its best
"Meta has decided not to release a new multimodal AI model and related products in the EU.
The move follows a similar decision last month by Apple to withhold its new Apple Intelligence features from Europe."
Oh no. Wait. Come back.
You’re tearing me apart lisa!
wow so they’re holding back on wasteful broken products?Seems like win win
This is more bark than bite, imo. They’re just threatening to withhold products at this point, but as the article points out:
- Europe’s a big market and profit focused companies aren’t going to give that up just to make a point
- Those that do will just encourage European competition to step up and fill whatever gaps might appear, which is just fine by the EU.
So… go right ahead. Let’s see how this really plays out.
“Don’t threaten me with a good time”
And the products they are threatening to withhold are exactly the products we don’t want. Last time the tech giants threatened to leave entirely the EU asked when to plan the going away party. The current tactic from the giants isn’t much better
Same argument for any case where cooperations bitch and whine about regulations.
Nice! Thank you EU for the GDPR!
For the next step, please let the companies that produce software be held accountable for damages. For Nonprofits change the target to associated companies. Also punish the people responsible, like the developers, for their software and choice of used libraries. If the library was insufficiently supported by the developer, then the developer has no ground to sue for damages themselves.
Also punish the people responsible, like the developers, for their software and choice of used libraries.
What??
Could they withhold their existence while we’re at it?..
