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    7 months ago

    Yes sorry, I meant privatization, brain fart moment.

    I don’t think universal charging or gdpr are meaningful in my everyday life. Do you want to know how I dealt with Apple’s bullshit premium prices on their slightly different shaped plug?

    I didn’t buy Apple products. And even with universal charging, I still won’t. I literally do not care about this universal charging thing. USB has been a de facto standard in my life long before the EU decided to randomly care about it.

    The only effect of gdpr is having to click on a trillion check marks every time you visit a website if you care about your privacy, or just give up and click the ‘accept all’ button, and even if you turn them all off, there’s still a trillion trackers because of ‘necessary’ ones.

    These two ‘achievements’ are the most meaningless things ever.

    The thing that actually impacts my life, for example, is the EU’s constant fight against biodiversity, by preventing the sales of any seed that isn’t pre-approved in a list designed by some corrupt official paid by Monsanto and friends.

    The EU can get fucked.

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      The only effect of gdpr is having to click on a trillion check marks

      This is only the visible part of the iceberg for regular users and I agree it sucks. But most importantly GDPR take companies accountable for personal data management and data-breaches. They are mandated by law to disclose publicly when they have suffered a data-breach, which was not the case anywhere before, and still isn’t the case in the US. It also mandates the data of EU-citizens must be managed and stored in the EU, and cannot be saved more than 1 year without renewed consent. GDPR is a very meaningful progress.

      For all the agriculture and environment topics, I agree with you that it is a debacle.

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        And I’m sure all of these things are heavily enforced and companies face hefty fines when they don’t follow these regulations lmao

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                The fact they got fined 5 times should tell you just how many fucks they give about it.

                Edit: lmao the second fine they got was a bank breaking 7 millions

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                I went back and added all the fines google got handed

                137 millions

                Estimates put Google as earning 50 millions per day on ad revenues alone lmao.

                GDPR is truly a devastating blow for these companies, I can’t possibly understand how they are able to cope with this incredible financial pressure.

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                  Who else is holding them and other GAFAM accountable to any capacity? Not any single country by itself has this level of influence. Is it enough? No! Is better than anything done elsewhere? Yes!

                  This is what I want of the EU. I want it to do better. Especially for the environment, public transports, social protection. I believe the vote I casted last Sunday reflects that. I am sad not many of my compatriots see things the same way. But that’s the system we have to deal with. It’s true that 1 vote every 5 years, isn’t as democratic as I wish.

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                    Ah yes, such accountability. 5 whole ass fines (for an evil company like Google that probably deserves 10x more) of which they made the money back in less than 3 days lmao

                    I can’t believe someone who seems as smart as you seem to be can look at that and be like “yes, this is meaningful” lmao. GDPR had absolutely no impact whatsoever. It’s the most pointless piece of legislation ever passed by the EU and the competition is pretty stiff in that category. They fucking regulated the shape of fucking bananas and cucumbers. They ban companies from saying drinking water hydrates you.

                    Look, feel free to believe the EU gives half a fuck, in reality it’s just the same bunch of neoliberal vampires who need to get publicly executed for their crimes against the people.