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I'm an American and I have next to zero trust for governments in general. "Absolute power corrupts absolutely" and humanity has given too few entirely too much
by blooalien 4y ago
I'm an American and I have next to zero trust for governments in general. "Absolute power corrupts absolutely" and humanity has given too few entirely too much "absolute power". I feel much the same about most of the massive corporate entities as well.
- jen20 4y agoThe difference is Europe is better at restricting corporate overreach than the US is, regardless of how similar their governments have become. That said, I'd take almost any European government over any US government of my entire lifetime, especially when it comes to actually enacting privacy legislation. I couldn't care less about web fonts though. I'm not downloading them from Google or "bunny.net" or anywhere else. My computer has some of the nicest-looking fonts around as system defaults, and websites can either work with that or get put into reader mode.
- robonerd 4y agoHmm. Well over the past century, European governments have collectively murdered a lot more people than any of the North American governments have.
- junofan 4y agoHere are the GDPR fines: https://www.enforcementtracker.com/ https://www.enforcementtracker.com/ Enacting legislation is one thing. Somalia is excellent at enacting gun control legislation.
- jen20 4y agoOne must enact legislation before one can enforce it.