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Apple to EU: “Go fuck yourself” (pluralistic.net)

submitted 9 months ago by JRepin@lemmy.ml to c/europe@lemmy.ml

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There's a strain of anti-anti-monopolist that insists that they're not pro-monopoly – they're just realists who understand that global gigacorporations are too big to fail, too big to jail, and that governments can't hope to rein them in. Trying to regulate a tech giant, they say, is like trying to regulate the weather.

This ploy is cousins with Jay Rosen's idea of "savvying," defined as: "dismissing valid questions with the insider's, 'and this surprises you?'"

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[–] SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

What I got out of that is:

The EU needs to cull some countries from its union. What's the point of the EU if everyone isn't required to follow the same rules?
Fuck Apple and double triple fuck Google.

[–] AnnaFrankfurter@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago

I'd say that Apple is way worse than Google in a lot of cases. But this doesn't mean Google are saints either. Both companies collect huge swaths of data on their users and easily share it with LEA. at least Google doesn't hide behind a fake "Privacy" curtain like apple does.

Even though Google kept Android opens source for their own personal gains but this still helped get us Graphene OS, and other privacy and security focused Custom Roms. And they could've or still can kill entire custom ROM market if they want to (I hope they don't read this and get any idea). And currently only Google pixel devices allow you to relock the bootloader with custom keys no other phone manufacturer does that. And apple doesn't even allow you to sideload apps for "security reasons". When it could be argued that Graphene OS is much more secure than both stock apple and android.

[–] Ferk@kbin.social 3 points 9 months ago

+1, either cull them from the union or cull them from the free trade deals.
What makes no sense is to let them decide to not enforce the EU rules while at the same time treating them as if they are a valid compliant member when it comes to trading with other countries in the union.