Does this mean we dont get to be tracked, data mined, ad-bombed, and exploited while our teens dont get depressed and sick from “social” media?
Well, if thats the price we pay, thats the price we pay… :)
What’s the easiest EU country to emigrate to?
Tech Giants Withholding Products Because EU Regulation like GDPR
Submitted 4 months ago by 1984@lemmy.today to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.axios.com/2024/07/18/tech-giants-eu-regulation-withholding-products
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ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 4 months ago
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 4 months ago
If you have no human principles, Hungary. You just have to buy some papers for it. Maybe learn a hard and useless language. But definitely love corruption and the suffering of other humans.
dubyakay@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
This is not true. You need to have years of presence OR have Hungarian ancestry and a few years less presence OR be married to a Hungarian for a couple years. Top this off with being able to know the Hungarian language.
darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Thanks for taking my joke literally and showing me a new search engine. That Google one seems pretty good. I’ve been using AltaVista and my BBS to find info but that’s way quicker.
Also, if you want to be a smart ass about it, use letmegooglethat.com/?q=dikfore
tigerjerusalem@lemmy.world 4 months ago
People are posses but I actually liked the link, so thank you.
mr_strange@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
Malta. You just have to pay a (largish) fee, and they’ll have you.
knotthatone@lemmy.one 4 months ago
This is more bark than bite, imo. They’re just threatening to withhold products at this point, but as the article points out:
- Europe’s a big market and profit focused companies aren’t going to give that up just to make a point
- Those that do will just encourage European competition to step up and fill whatever gaps might appear, which is just fine by the EU.
So… go right ahead. Let’s see how this really plays out.
SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 4 months ago
And the products they are threatening to withhold are exactly the products we don’t want. Last time the tech giants threatened to leave entirely the EU asked when to plan the going away party. The current tactic from the giants isn’t much better
fluxion@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Same argument for any case where cooperations bitch and whine about regulations.
IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world 4 months ago
“Meta has decided not to release a new multimodal AI model and related products in the EU.
The move follows a similar decision last month by Apple to withhold its new Apple Intelligence features from Europe.”
Oh no. Wait. Come back.
JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You’re tearing me apart lisa!
Fedizen@lemmy.world 4 months ago
wow so they’re holding back on wasteful broken products?Seems like win win
RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
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Apple reversed log standing design policy to put a USB C charger in the iPhone because not selling iPhones in Europe was not a financially viable option.
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Apple won’t launch their AI features in Europe because changing to comply with regulations is too hard
These features aren’t that important then I guess?
ocassionallyaduck@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This is a total win for Europeans.
Bring more Europe to the US. Lol
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brsrklf@jlai.lu 4 months ago
Sounds like it’s working to me.
Zuckbot, comply with GDPR or forget about EU.
sunbeam60@lemmy.one 4 months ago
In this case I think it’s the DMA they’re butthurt Bout.
96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl 4 months ago
We don’t want your shitty products :)
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
If your “product” is stealing my information for your “AI”, then please “withhold” it.
devfuuu@lemmy.world [bot] 4 months ago
Really hope so.
giacomo@lemm.ee 4 months ago
oh no, not the products!
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 4 months ago
Oh dear, how sad, never mind
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Threatening a dog with a weiner I see. That’s a bold strategy.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 4 months ago
USA only wishes we were this cool.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This just in: good time threatened. O no
KomfortablesKissen@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
Nice! Thank you EU for the GDPR!
For the next step, please let the companies that produce software be held accountable for damages. For Nonprofits change the target to associated companies. Also punish the people responsible, like the developers, for their software and choice of used libraries. If the library was insufficiently supported by the developer, then the developer has no ground to sue for damages themselves.
mr_strange@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
Also punish the people responsible, like the developers, for their software and choice of used libraries.
What??
KomfortablesKissen@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
You write shitty code and it breaks something? You should be punished accordingly.
You load libraries without checking each and every one and now something’s broken? You should be punished accordingly.
You load proprietary code and now something’s broken? You better checked the whole contract so you can punish the creators after you’ve been punished.
Software developers often have way more reach (over distance and over time) than they realize. They should be held accountable more like doctors or engineers.
abrinael@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s too bad the websites that do this don’t have to put a label on it in the U.S. Something like “Not for consumption in the E.U.” to make people wonder what’s going on.
BigBenis@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Oh no! Anyway…
Paragone@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This escalation will continue,
until big-tech forces the governments to kneel to the surveillance-capitalism biggest:
They will simply say something like:
“Either your government removes laws, regulations, accountability, etc, from us,
XOR we are hamstringing your country: we OWN you, we POSSESS you, & you will obey OUR rule.”
I guarantee this will be happening between now & 2036.
Remember how they can ratchet-up a genocide, anywhere??
They’ve already done so, in some places…
( Facebook & … was it Myanmar? as 1 example )
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rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 months ago
until big-tech forces the governments to kneel to the surveillance-capitalism biggest:
You think governments are resisting?
mannycalavera@feddit.uk 4 months ago
Does this mean we dont get to be tracked, data mined, ad-bombed, and exploited while our teens dont get depressed and sick from “social” media?
Nah you still get all of that but in a shitter product.
sunbeam60@lemmy.one 4 months ago
May I introduce you to our friend and saviour, the GDPR regulations?
MinFapper@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Nah, you can build algorithms that make depressed teenagers with little to no tracking. Especially if they can train said algorithms from data they already have from the rest of the world.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 4 months ago
If the products or “products” being withheld are deemed useful by their users, you’re bound to have someone filling the gap created by the butthurt tech giants leaving.
cheese_greater@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Capitalism at its best
lvxferre@mander.xyz 4 months ago
I wouldn’t say “capitalism”, given that some of the alternatives filling the gap to be non-commercial in nature.
nyan@lemmy.cafe 4 months ago
If we’re really lucky, those replacements might even become competition for the original products outside the EU, and drive the data vultures out of business.
(Something has to go right in this timeline eventually, right?)