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Too bad. I was hoping the EU would use its economic might to apply pressure against surveillance capitalism. Sometimes when our host nations fail us our best op
by api 7y ago
Too bad. I was hoping the EU would use its economic might to apply pressure against surveillance capitalism. Sometimes when our host nations fail us our best option is to hope for global pressure.
- rayvd 7y agoIt doesn't seem like their "economic might" would last too long if they tried this tactic. It also doesn't help that the country they'd be targeting provides for their military defense.
- chroma 7y agoMy issue with "right to be forgotten" is with the principle, not the implementation. It violates not only freedom of speech, but freedom of private communication. Let's look at what it's really involved with: I send an encrypted request asking a company for some information. That company wants to reply (also encrypted) with that information. This law forbids them from doing so. The company might be a megacorp like Google, but (depending on what I'm searching for) it might be a smaller service run by an enthusiast. This law should really be called, "The right to stop other people saying true things about me to people who request that information."