It’s a monkey’s paw situation. Sure, the EU will protect us from American tech abuse… and implement the same policies internally.
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Auth@lemmy.world 7 months ago
EU please stop, you were suppose to save us from American Tech abuse not join them.
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 7 months ago
Auth@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
Meron35@lemmy.world 7 months 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…
msage@programming.dev 7 months ago
What could be the reason this keeps happening everywhere???
Auth@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The PH levels of the ocean
deadcream@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
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.
General_Effort@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And much of that driven by lobbyism by the same media empires who are trying to get rid of ad blockers.