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    I get the sentiment, who doesn’t want to dunk on Google?

    But the headline is needlessly inflammatory. There is no law yet; and google essentially is saying please please don’t implement it, it totally doesn’t make sense.

    Don’t get me wrong, the EU should still implement it. And once it is law; Google will also comply.

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    Damn.

    Wish the rest of us could just ignore all laws & not face any consequences.

    What a fucking joke this entire system is.

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    Fine the heck out of them then. If they don’t pay the fine ban em. Plenty of alternatives out there. More competition in the search engine market would be better anyways.

    Not too big of a fan of banning companies as the hurdles should be decently high… Especially if many people rely on their service but if they won’t comply with our jurisdiction long term I see this as the only option as fees can not be order of business to pay

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    I want to live in a world where the EU bans Google, but we all know the EU will just roll over and accept this.

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    Didn’t a year ago or so, Some European lawmaker made a vague hint in support of something that involved regulations on social media, and Elon replied “go fuck yourself” verbatem?

    Play hardball, or surrender and give them what they want. there’s no compromise or middle ground with these techbro fascists

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    This is definitely to avoid the ire of fuhrer trump. It’s also coincidence that meta is abandoning fact checking right before the new administration

    He will sic the dogs of regulation on them if they don’t dance to his tune

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    Given that we are going full authoritarian fascist now, perhaps the EU should ban Google, given the US tik tok precedent.

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      What a twist. In the 90s, the internet forced countries to wake up to the new modern era. It was a combination of American companies wanting both to expand and provide goodwill.

      And now, this new era is going to tell American companies to fuck off.

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        Democracies around the world rightly shouldn’t tolerate the blatant corruption and manipulative business practice of American tech companies.

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          America itself seems fine with it.

          Oh wait, you said Democracies right. My bad.

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    Can’t believe Google’s doing this, they seemed to be the most dedicated to this of the big companies. Especially on Youtube.

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      The rich are trying to pivot the Trump vicory into world domination before we can organize and dethrone the oligarchy.

      Google/Meta helping to spread misinformation is a big part of that.

      I wish I was kidding.

      Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

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        The evidence so far is that the primary response of the heinously rich when they fear for their lives is to spend more or much more on their security and their politicians rather than to change their evil greedy behavior at all. Those looking for any real solution to oligarchs need to consider this fact when evaluating what should be done.

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          Honestly, the most humane and least distasteful solution is to dispossess the billionaires of their billions. Not a drop of their blood need to be shed, should this be done.

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    In other words, a company, acting on behalf of its own shareholders, tells a government, which represents 100% of the citizens in a given territory, to shove its legislation where the sun doesn’t shine. And not only is this not inherently absurd, but it also stands a significant chance of succeeding in getting the government to comply.

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      A government … only in theory does. Like a church represents God, because humans are too dumb to understand him directly.

      “Fact-checking” is preserving a certain model of censorship and propaganda. “No fact-checking” is moving to a new model of censorship and propaganda.

      Both sides of this fight prefer it being called such, so that one seems against misinformation, and the other seems against censorship, but they are not really different in this dimension. They are different in strategy and structure and interests, but neither is good for the average person.

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      I could see the EU backing down a few years ago, but these days they have watered down any actual advantage in search by filling their results with ads and low quality content. Not that I use Reddit any more, but a good Reddit search engine would probably be better for a lot of use cases.

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        Reddit search engine? Hell nah I want more federated communities. Reddit has a contract with google anyways that blocks out foreign web crawlers.

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          That’s what I mean. Their own native search that only searches Reddit. I’m not saying it would be great, just better than Google for many uses cases.

          This isn’t me talking up Reddit—I haven’t been back in over a year. This is me trashing Google.

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        Then you got people like Musk using their websites as foreign influence platforms to restore Nazis into power so I’d imagine there’s an appetite for not being so reliant on the increasingly belligerent US media oligarchy, which itself is the victim of Fox News and Murdoch.

        Plus everything is already enshittified anyway so easy to create better.

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          Except reddit is all ai-generated bullshit now. Unless you search before 2024, searching reddit is literally useless, and that’s all going to be out of date so quickly

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      I would love that. I still use google products, because I was too lazy to switch, a ban would give me the incentive to move to another platform