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by rdm_blackhole 9mo ago
However good this news is, it means nothing if the average household is not seeing any price decrease in their bill. It's well and good to say that eventually sometime in the future prices will be lower but in the meantime it doesn&#x2
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by rdm_blackhole 9mo ago
The BBC just like any other news organization is not neutral. It sometimes leans left and it sometimes lean right. The problem is that this "leaning" is never disclosed. If a newspaper is comfortably right-wing/left-wing and
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by rdm_blackhole 9mo ago
> This is why you fund public media sensibly, outside the control of any given administration. That is a very nice solution but it doesnt work in practice. If the budgets are decided by the government then there is always the possibility
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by rdm_blackhole 9mo ago
Public funding is not the solution. Too many conflicts of interests. Who is going to bite the hand that feeds them? Want to get a higher budget next year? You better run some stories on the great work that the current government is doing or
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by rdm_blackhole 9mo ago
That is why I said for them and their family. If you use app A and that app is scanned for "malicious" content then I will message you on app B where there is no such scanning. If you don't want to use app B then I guess we c
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by rdm_blackhole 9mo ago
While you have a point, you are looking at this the wrong way. 20 years ago if you had told someone you needed to get a face scan or upload your ID to view certain websites or that you might get your messages and emails scanned in case you
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by rdm_blackhole 9mo ago
I agree. If someone is happy for a government worker/algorithm to snoop through everything they send to anyone, feel free to opt in, just don't force us to participate.
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by rdm_blackhole 9mo ago
> What are we to do if not monitor? Simple, you can choose to only use platforms that use the most stringent scanning technologies for you and your family. You give the UK government (or the equivalent that applies to you) the right to c
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by rdm_blackhole 9mo ago
> Musk is implicitly allowing child pornography on his platform. That is blatantly false and you know it. Musk has lot to answer for but we don't need to start making up imaginary crimes here. > Apple/Google should have remo
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by rdm_blackhole 9mo ago
I don't understand the downvotes that you are getting. There is a clear intent to muzzle the population that is going on in Europe with this new legislation and then with Chat control. Those who can't see that need to remove the b
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by rdm_blackhole 9mo ago
> The UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) It should be called the Ministry of Truth at this point. > Unwanted How do you know if a nude is unwanted? The premise itself makes no sense. The only way this could po
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by rdm_blackhole 9mo ago
> This is just an exercise in establishing dominance (i.e. The End of Politeness). I agree. It's a way to assert dominance and the EU countries are partially responsible for the state of things. I mean, when you outsource your manuf
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by rdm_blackhole 9mo ago
> The EU can just kick out the US bases and forbid Mastercard and Visa working here. ASML? Good luck for Intel; I'm sure AMD would have its asses already covered and found some alternative in Asia. The EU uses Mastercard and Visa. I
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by rdm_blackhole 9mo ago
> You do realize that the debt/gdp ratio is a ratio? I realize that. I just don't agree that any austerity measures have been taken which was the point of the comment I was responding to. If real austerity had occurred then the
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by rdm_blackhole 9mo ago
I don't believe a "war" is brewing. If and that is a big if, Trump were to get Greenland, there is not much that Europe can do in any case. Maybe a few politicians will go on X/twitter and complain but every country in t
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by rdm_blackhole 9mo ago
> you benefit from it as a business owner. When one has no response it's easier to blame the messenger. A nice cop out if I may say so. > Yeah, because you are so superior to everybody else that people should ask you question, an
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by rdm_blackhole 9mo ago
> And those who are in a dominant position generally think that they are there because they deserve it, because they are superior. And this sentence explains your opinion. Business owner = superior = bad You haven't responded to any
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by rdm_blackhole 9mo ago
> There are no "European Global Censorship Programs". Except Chat Control of course.
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by rdm_blackhole 9mo ago
I hear you. It's frustrating really to have these conversations with people who will deny the reality this much. Instead of using this opportunity to ask the questions that everyone should be asking, which are amongst others "how
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by rdm_blackhole 9mo ago
You can disagree all you want, the facts don't lie but if you prefer to stick your head in the sand and pretend that none of this is happening, then by all means continue to do so. This is a real problem with most Europeans honestly. N
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by rdm_blackhole 9mo ago
Have you? I am a European business owner just FYI. I know very well how much taxes I am paying each month.
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by rdm_blackhole 9mo ago
Yes that is what OP is saying and OP is correct. If you are young, talented and you have a crazy idea that might just work and if you are given the opportunity then you go to the US every-time. Why? Because it makes sense. Why stay in Berli
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by rdm_blackhole 9mo ago
> The same thing that stops anyone from starting a new Google or Microsoft or Apple in the US, probably. And that's apparently not regulations. The reason why there is no other Google in the US currently is because for the average p
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by rdm_blackhole 9mo ago
The euro group did not follow austerity measures. Italy's debt has ballooned to 150% of it's GDP, France is heading for 130% in the near future. Whatever happened in the EU, was not Germany's responsibility. Even Greece'
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by rdm_blackhole 9mo ago
> Because it struggles to compete with the US monopolies doesn't mean that it doesn't have a software industry. It's hard to compete with TooBigTech when they are being anti-competitive, and whenever the EU tries to apply
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by rdm_blackhole 9mo ago
> The EU very regularly asks for input on new policy initiatives, it's one of the better aspects of the legislative/policy-making process. And then it basically ignores all the input and moves forward with policies like chat co
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by rdm_blackhole 10mo ago
It's not about the feasibility itself, it's about the precedent that was set. Can you look in the eye someone and forbid them from doing something that you just did? It makes zero sense. > no casualties 40 people died > More
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by rdm_blackhole 10mo ago
Well the genie is out of the bottle now. Every petty tyrant or so called leader in Africa, Middle east, Asia and who knows where else now know that going to another country, snatching the leader and kidnapping them can be done without much
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by rdm_blackhole 10mo ago
Those who rejoice today with the fall of Maduro may not rejoice when China or India or any other regional player decides to topple the government of another country and kidnap their leaders and then install a "friendly" regime in
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by rdm_blackhole 10mo ago
> Furthermore, France is in the EU. They expect to deploy their implementation of the EU Digital Identity Wallet by the end of 2026. > The EU has been working on this for several years, and it is currently undergoing large scale field

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