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Oh
OH!!!
OhOhOHHhhhhhh!!!!!!!11!!eleven11!!!!!
The ✨
Fucking 😻
European Union's 🌈
Digital Service Act 🥲
Forces large social platforms 🥳
To always offer ♥️
a non-algorithmic option 🌟
To EU users 🤟
Fuck
Yeah
EU!!!!
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I see US tech jounalists on Mastodon, once again, charging against the EU for "damaging european users" by forcing companies to deliver "a subpar experience". So let me paste something I wrote over there a few weeks ago:
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I keep seeing very important US tech journalist here talking about how Threads not launching in the EU is:
- somehow shameful and a sign of how "you can't innovate in the EU"
- a problem for the EU, which will led us to creative interpretations of the GDPR to finally allow Meta to launch here.
And I think folks from the US tech scene really, really don't understand several things:
1) how incredibly hostile the EU (and a good chunk of the European political parties) are to "big tech".
2) how surprisingly immune to lobbying the EU Parliament appears to be.
3) how actually popular it's that the politicians take a hard stance against macrocorps. Every time the European Commission has gone against big tech most the press and the people have cheered them as our champions against evil.
And I can't even start describing how IMPORTANT for the future could be that people started being able to turn off YouTube algorithmic recommendations. I think YouTube shares with meta, pretty much 50/50, the responsibility for the global resurgence of fascism we have seen in the last decade.
Love wins 😌
And a version for my aro/ace/not interested in kissing for whatever reason siblings:
Ineffably amusing indeed! Cheers to Good Omens Season 2 debuting as the #1 Comedy on Prime Video! @neil-gaiman