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Why US tech giants are threatening to quit the UK::Some tech giants feel they might have reached a "tipping point" due to new legislation.

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[–] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 37 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Looks like is time to move to Europe then, I mean the whole call and write to your senators and representatives only works if they care about their people instead of corporate contributions, the whole vote for someone who cares only works if you have an alternative.

[–] crate_of_mice@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe I'm missing your point, but which senators in particular are relevant to the UK?

[–] AttackPanda@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the commenter meant the saying we have in the US which is call and write your representatives/senators. They were indicating doing whatever the UK version of that appears to be falling on deaf ears as the article states the politicians do not appear to be taking the advise of educated advisors so they are also likely going to ignore the public.

[–] buzziebee@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

75% of the current Tory MPs are about to lose their seats in the next election so they don't give a fuck. The strategy they seem to be adopting to save their jobs is to swing further to the authoritarian right to try and convince boomers to vote for them.

They won't win by taking the sensible approach to policies like this, so that only leaves incentives to do as much harm as they can in the next year or so in hopes of getting the fascist votes out.

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