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0 pointstmalsburg27y ago0 comments

> GDPR was only passed because the companies they were "targeting" (and they were targeting a specific set of companies let's please be real) were foreign.

This is complete and utter nonsense and only shows that you know nothing about EU policy making. The EU regulates the shit out of EU-based businesses. That's very well-known and quite controversial. And by the way, GDPR affects a ton (!) of EU businesses, basically every company that has some kind of web page. Do you really think there are no internet businesses beyond Silicon Valley?

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bepotts7y ago· 1 in thread

It's well known the EU doesn't like Google and Facebook because of how disruptive they are; culturally and economically. Please don't insult my intelligence and say that France would have voted to hurt some of the most innovative (and financially successful) companies in the world if they were French. Be real.

Macron went all "Start up France" and was trying to attract some talent that would have been in the United States but can't due to Trump's habits. Every European country would vote another EU country out of the EU if it meant gaining Facebook, Google, and Twitter.

And Europe is irrelevant when it comes to consumer internet companies. That's just calling a spade a spade.

Tehnix7y ago

> It's well known the EU doesn't like Google and Facebook because of how disruptive they are

Um, what? No?

> Please don't insult my intelligence and say that France would have voted to hurt some of the most innovativ...

Luckily the EU does not consist of just one single country.

> Every single European country would vote another EU country out of the EU if it meant gaining Facebook, Google and Twitter

This is honestly so ridiculous, I am starting to wonder if you even know what the EU is. You are aware that it is a large union of countries that keep each other accountable and help each other, right? No single country could ever get rid of another country.

> And Europe is irrelevant when it comes to consumer internet companies. That's just calling a spade a spade.

Wow...just wow...

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