• Bogasse
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    11 hours ago

    It felt miraculous for me that, for a while, tech companies appeared to comply to regulation (doing the bare minimum, as slowly as possible, but it kinda worked).

    My hypothesis is that they now except political support from Trump administration and to pressure the EU?

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      3 hours ago

      Bingo. Trump already started playing with his corporate finger puppets, emboldening some, threatening others.
      Same reason Zuckerberg, surely the expert on the matter, had this weird rambling about “masculine energy” very recently. What a Trumpian phrase.

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      8 hours ago

      My hypothesis is that they now except political support from Trump administration and to pressure the EU?

      Yes. We will now export our fascism, making it essentially just the same imperialism we’ve been engaged in forever.

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        7 hours ago

        To be fair, you haven’t invented fascism.

        Although, in France we have a sort of proverb that says that what happens in the US happens here 10 years later. I hope we will manage to dodge what’s coming at us, this time…