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"Ruled by our laws" is the opposite of a selling point. I don't trust megacorps, but I trust governments even less than that.

karmakurtisaani 8mo ago
Because you probably don't live in the EU. They've done a tremendous job regulating the mega corps and making tech better for consumers.
- fwn 8mo ago
  Although I live in the EU, I have no trust in its ability to regulate my media usage or platform providers at all. The EU just managed to postpone chat control for a bit, and my own country has found a renewed passion for punishing expression crimes (so-called "Äußerungsdelikte") through various legal and pre-legal means. Social, legal or technical centralization is not a solution to any issue related to public discourse, and Euro-nationalism is not a wise concept. It will simply make us another economic bloc, just with an older population than the others. Contrary to the current zeitgeist in the EU, power should be dispersed as much as possible. We should embrace global open-source initiatives and work towards a European Union that open-source projects (and tech companies!) want to organize under because of our superior regulatory frameworks, not subsidies, legal pressure, promised government service demand or political initiatives. We already have a lot of failed political initiatives, so why not try the organic, good governance approach for once? Instead, we just create more bureaucracy and red tape. This absurd CRA nugget is a good example for our european style tech regulation for open source: https://cra.orcwg.org/faq/stewards/ https://cra.orcwg.org/faq/stewards/ (rant over) edit: A good - allthough unfortunately German - recent essay on the German speech issue might be: https://netzpolitik.org/2026/grundrechte-wie-polizei-und-justiz-unsere-meinungsfreiheit-einschraenken/ https://netzpolitik.org/2026/grundrechte-wie-polizei-und-jus...
- ACCount37 8mo ago
  With what? Cookie laws, Chat Control and mandatory age verification? EU did a few things right, but it's a mixed bag at best. And much worse than "mixed" in specific EU countries.

karmakurtisaani 8mo ago

Because you probably don't live in the EU. They've done a tremendous job regulating the mega corps and making tech better for consumers.

fwn 8mo ago
Although I live in the EU, I have no trust in its ability to regulate my media usage or platform providers at all. The EU just managed to postpone chat control for a bit, and my own country has found a renewed passion for punishing expression crimes (so-called "Äußerungsdelikte") through various legal and pre-legal means. Social, legal or technical centralization is not a solution to any issue related to public discourse, and Euro-nationalism is not a wise concept. It will simply make us another economic bloc, just with an older population than the others. Contrary to the current zeitgeist in the EU, power should be dispersed as much as possible. We should embrace global open-source initiatives and work towards a European Union that open-source projects (and tech companies!) want to organize under because of our superior regulatory frameworks, not subsidies, legal pressure, promised government service demand or political initiatives. We already have a lot of failed political initiatives, so why not try the organic, good governance approach for once? Instead, we just create more bureaucracy and red tape. This absurd CRA nugget is a good example for our european style tech regulation for open source: https://cra.orcwg.org/faq/stewards/ https://cra.orcwg.org/faq/stewards/ (rant over) edit: A good - allthough unfortunately German - recent essay on the German speech issue might be: https://netzpolitik.org/2026/grundrechte-wie-polizei-und-justiz-unsere-meinungsfreiheit-einschraenken/ https://netzpolitik.org/2026/grundrechte-wie-polizei-und-jus...
ACCount37 8mo ago
With what? Cookie laws, Chat Control and mandatory age verification? EU did a few things right, but it's a mixed bag at best. And much worse than "mixed" in specific EU countries.