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This is one of the reasons I wish there was more bigger European companies. Then we wouldn't need to deal with the bullshit US sanctions and cancel culture.
by tasogare 5y ago
This is one of the reasons I wish there was more bigger European companies. Then we wouldn't need to deal with the bullshit US sanctions and cancel culture.
- yur3i__ 5y agoI'm not sure I've heard sanctions on enemy states described as "cancel culture" before, nor am I sure it applies
- Datagenerator 5y agoThese 'enemies' are fellow humans too right?
- yur3i__ 5y agoI didn't say I agreed with them, just "cancel culture" is a bit of a trivialization
- tasogare 5y agoThose are not the same. I'm referring to two problematic things with US companies: in one hand sanctions, in the other political censorship based on "woke" biais. Some French politicians got/are being canceled by Twitter and Facebook for their political opinions. This is a big problem for democracy.
- cycrutchfield 5y agoIf your “political opinions” violate a platform’s terms of service, what do you expect should happen?
- estaseuropano 5y agoS/he is expexting exactly that to happen and thus is hoping for more European players so its not all US-values that are being pushed, i.e. glorification of violence and prudish shaming/banning of such normal things as breastfeeding.
- hulitu 5y agoI hate to say it: the same argument was made by the communist party. It is sad that people never learn from history. It does not matter who does it. It matters because it becomes widespread and it becomes the new normality and good luck fighting normality. In communism ( or nazism) the party was not always the coercive power. Sometimes your boss, your wife or your neighbour take this role.
- kingsuper20 5y ago> This is one of the reasons I wish there was more bigger European companies. Then we wouldn't need to deal with the bullshit US sanctions and cancel culture. I'm afraid you'd simply get wound up in their own national policy and need to peep through keyholes. Pretty wild on github to see national policy kinks worm their way through the system. What happens if it's hosted in a neutral country?
- tpush 5y agoNeither political sanctions nor 'cancel culture' are unique to the US.
- andylynch 5y agoLarge European and Swiss companies absolutely have to deal with US sanctions. Pretty much any large international company needs to in some way.