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EU unveils ‘revolutionary’ laws to curb big tech firms’ power - The Guardian
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Once more, the EU being leader when it comes to users' rights and keeping the big companies accountable for their shady practices. 👍
Sometimes i wish i lived there :')
As a Canadian, I appreciate a lot of what the EU does when it comes to consumer protections. Hopefully this one also ends up impacting the rest of us!
Same, my American brother, same. (I'm from Chile btw) 🇨🇱✌️
Excellent use of the word, my friend.
Microsoft has announced that they will stop forcefully opening links built into their products in Microsoft Edge, opening the users' standard browser instead... for EU computers.
You can bet that Apple will only allow alternative app stores in Europe as well. They're trying to get out of opening up iMessage because that's mostly an American thing anyway, and if they can't, I'm sure they'll restrict their openness to just the places where they're forced to by law.
Some laws are affecting you (many websites with automated GDPR tools don't check if you're actually from the EU) but I'm afraid the most important changes will only apply over here.
I plan on moving there as soon as possible when I graduate high school. Real tired of America
Come to Ireland, the weather is mostly shite but global failures on climate change are making it very Mediterranean
Ireland is probably is a nice country to live in, but it's pretty ironic recommending it to someone wanting to come to the EU because of its regulations on big companies.
Ireland costs other countries 16bn a year by allowing those companies to evade taxes in the EU.
How is Ireland's tax rate any different to Delaware's. Opportunity cost isn't the same
I was planning on Germany, and I’ve recently met a German friend online which has solidified my choice
@Hikiru @Squizzy I live in Spain and I'm planning to move to Denmark or Norway in a few years. Heat is impossible to manage here, and the political system is almost beyond salvation.
I think this is the first time I’ve seen a mastodon account on lemmy
Where in Germany are you planning to go?
I’m considering Hamburg, it’s where my friend lives and I’ve heard it’s a nice city
Oh nice, than you'll be right in my neighbourhood. Hamburg is really nice and the northern Germans are the best ones (no bias of course :D).
Jesus the heat at the moment.
Your visas are hard to get without a job, and the only jobs hiring foreigners are... big tech companies. I tried Ireland for years before giving up and going elsewhere.
Some countries in EU offer Americans free education and easy work permits after graduation. I think Germany has program like that.
Germany is what I’m planning on but you need to have 11,208 euros (if I remember the number correctly) to prove you can support yourself for a visa to study there
Theres plenty of places that need workers, in the EU!
Depending on your education it will be easier or harder, of course (also which country you plan on going to)
France welcomes you with open arms, feel free to dm me :)
As a Brit, me too.
You caught my attention.
How has life changed for you since Brexit?
Not the person you asked, but for me:
So, yeah. Not everyone has had as bad a time as me, but everyone I know has encountered some negative fallout. I've yet to encounter anyone who has actually benefitted, even indirectly.
So err, do you think the country has any chance of fixing stuff up, considering Poland is on track to overtake the UK at this rate, within a decade? And have perhaps some of your political ideas/values or strongly held beliefs changed at all?
Different brit here. I suspect the plan is to reduce immigration by making the UK a place no one would want to migrate too.
On a related note, I believe Indians are emigrating to other EU countries too - it wouldn't surprise me if India's rise was a consideration for brexit. Naturally Indians (as with most people who wish to immigrate tbh) want to come to an English speaking country.
My political ideology has definately changed: I now think of myself as European, rather than British. The point of the EU project is that it doesn't fucking matter what flag you live under, or what language you talk, or which imaginary friend you worship; for all our differences were 99% the same, and want to live in safe places, eat good food, travel freely, speak out minds, work rewarding jobs, love who we want, work together to make the world better and delight in seeing others getting do the same. As a sometimes-vegeratian, coffee-loving IT worker from Manchester I have more in common with sometimes-vegetarian, coffee-loving IT workers from Mannheim, Maribor or Madrid than I do with some fat-necked millionaire power-lusting would-be dictator with whom my only common ground is a flag.
The purpose of the EU and it's predecessors is to make war in Europe impossible. It's that simple. Who are these people that would see that undone? Whoever they are, they call themselves British.
Lol, some would call you over remain-minded. I appreciate that you miss what you lost clearly (beyond even the wages).
As an EU citizen in blighty, I care even less about the EU than before seeing that even the wealthiest countries within the EU have regressed socially and politically.
Obviously your own issue doesn't have much to do with EU countries' domestic policies, you relied on UK membership of the EU for trade.
Jesus, i'm really sad to hear all that. 😢
Let's hope the british goverment comes out soon with a good strategy to push the economy forward, (or just reverse brexit altogether).
Damn, that's awful!
One urgent thingis that the EU follow the UK in abandoning the ill-conceived "client-side scanning", aka Chat-Control.
Both have laws like that in the making and beside tiny formalities the UK sadly didn't abandone it at all! :/