There is a polish movie called "Debt". It's about a guy who unknowingly does some business with a gangster and ends up owning him some money. Throughout the movie he gives the gangster more and more money but the fictional debt only keeps growing.
This is exactly what happened here. EU folded on the trade deal so now US wants more. It was clear to anyone with a little bit of sense that agreeing to 15% tariffs will not stabilize the situation. EU is run by idiots.
Why is the EU always blamed for everything? This is how you got brexit. Trade policy and negotiations included all of the inputs of the EU members' leaders. The problem is that they are split. Some are trump fans (Italy, Hungary), some can't imagine life without murica (Germany, Poland, Baltics, probably), some want more autonomy (France, Spain). This is merely a fragile compromise.
EU is a union (it's right in the name). It's as strong or as weak as all of it's members are combined. The people running it are selected by and follow orders of those members. Yes, some of the countries in EU are reasonable but EU as a whole is weak and/or naive.
Same for the United States of America.
Yeah, thry are neoliberals interested in maintaining the neoliberal world order that has existed for the past 50 years.
Apparently this 15% bullshit trade deal is not ratified yet, so it can still be canceled
I'm curious what you felt the EU should have done differently.
ugh fuck off
Edit: sorry, not you, OP
... which Washington says stifles free speech
No that's not it. Washington couldn't care kess
and imposes costs on U.S. tech companies,
Ding ding ding!
Oh look, the tech companies sent a shit eating emissary to tell us how to live our lives so as to exploit us better...
Marco Rubio, fuck you, you piece of shit!
I hope the EU becomes nationalistic in response to this 'outreach'. It is clear that Dogey America intends to violate Europe on every level.
Is this what US diplomats are doing now? Fucking pathetic.
"diplomats"
No man, those people got fired in like week 1.
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remember they tried to do this in south america, tried to start a coup and they were expelled.
Sending technofacism and corruption overseas
Lazy question as I haven't followed the DSA closely and Wikipedia seems very surface level - does it do stupid privacy invasive crap and forget small sites exist like the UK's Online Safety Act?
I haven’t reviewed the whole thing, only small parts but it does look to handle online verification better (re: invasiveness).
There is a section talking about a prototype app already released that is used to store age. It verifies off a couple different government docs (ID, bank details, upcoming Digital ID), but in the end only stores the user’s age (no name, ID, birth date, or other details). The fact page for the app claims that once age is established there is no further contact between the user and age verifier, but of course this is where I likely see the issue with any age verification tool. It’ll depend on whether the verification tool trashes age-related data once done with it, or if they retain a copy for whatever reasons.
Proof of age is tied to the age required per country per activity, but this sounds far more reasonable than having a single company verify and manage age data (Persona in the US).
prototype app
Ahh yes, the app that coincidentally locks mobile OSes into the google ecosystem. 🤮
It is a prototype.
Their development roadmap specifically mentions Android AND iOS versions…
Yes. But it excludes any sort of custom OS versions due to the way it's implemented. So no Lineage, no Graphene.
I’m ignoring the US politics for a moment…
If I flag a comment on Lemmy for abuse, breaking community rules, or other reasons, do you y’all think I am individually owed a response from the mod team on whether the content stays approved, or was removed, that includes the specific criteria behind the decision?
That’s what the DSA requires among many other requirements.
IANAL but the DSA says nothing about requirements to inform reporters on a community moderation level. It is only concerned with illegal content and this cannot be simply flagged. It has to be a sufficiently substantiated explanation reported to the instance legal contact.
Also NAL and different sizes of platforms have different obligations. Could be wrong that the scenario I described applies to Lemmy.
What tech ? We have ASML and it s great but other than that in what tech are we leader ? We had nuclear turbine before but macron sold them and I can t find any other one
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