It was never about freedom, but about restoring control of European governments over their citizens’ online presence and their data, so that everything they do on the internet is subject to European laws and regulations, not American ones.
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Auth@lemmy.world 1 day ago
EU please stop, you were suppose to save us from American Tech abuse not join them.
deadcream@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 day ago
And much of that driven by lobbyism by the same media empires who are trying to get rid of ad blockers.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 1 day ago
It’s a monkey’s paw situation. Sure, the EU will protect us from American tech abuse… and implement the same policies internally.
Auth@lemmy.world 1 day ago
We need an African Tech revolution. Unless their tech follows the same path, then we run to an Australian tech revolution. Asian tech is already cooked and has been for a long time.
msage@programming.dev 1 day ago
What could be the reason this keeps happening everywhere???
elvith@feddit.org 1 day ago
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Auth@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
The PH levels of the ocean
Meron35@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Africa tech is just Chinese tech so they’re already cooked.
Australia basically banned encryption long ago and in doing killed off their tech industry.
We need a New Zealand tech revolution, which is where all the Australian IT firms relocated to following the encryption ban.
Encryption laws are hurting Australia’s tech sector, Atlassian says | Australian security and counter-terrorism | The Guardian - theguardian.com/…/encryption-laws-are-hurting-aus…