Marco Rubio orders US diplomats to launch lobbying blitz against Europe's tech law (www.reuters.com)
from Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world on 07 Aug 09:29
https://lemmy.world/post/34081764

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Lumidaub@feddit.org on 07 Aug 09:35 next collapse

ugh fuck off

Edit: sorry, not you, OP

[deleted] on 07 Aug 10:36 collapse

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Lumidaub@feddit.org on 07 Aug 10:40 collapse

Thank you for this bit of wisdom. Why did you feel the need to share it here?

[deleted] on 07 Aug 10:51 collapse

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Lumidaub@feddit.org on 07 Aug 10:54 next collapse

You do with your laws whatever the fuck you want. We have different approaches to things and if US based companies don’t like that, they’ll have to find somewhere else to sell their stuff instead of relying on your government to help them bully other countries. Capitalism, small government, and all that.

REDACTED@infosec.pub on 07 Aug 11:25 next collapse

Oh no. Imagine seeing pro-Trump ad, but the “paid by” reads “Vladimir Putin”. I mean, I get why Trump does not like transparency, but this law isn’t all that bad, includes stuff like having basic fundamental rights in ToS and being able to contact the company.

Good for people, bad for authoritarians and corporations.

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 07 Aug 13:26 next collapse

Can you explain why they are stupid? Please remember to take the boot from your mouth before you begin.

DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social on 07 Aug 17:45 collapse

They can’t, it’s fused with their tongue

tortina_original@lemmy.world on 07 Aug 13:48 collapse

Apparently, laws and you have something in common 🤔

FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world on 07 Aug 18:16 collapse

Hilarious. Such wit!

[deleted] on 07 Aug 10:39 next collapse

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just_another_person@lemmy.world on 07 Aug 11:19 next collapse

Is this what US diplomats are doing now? Fucking pathetic.

Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 07 Aug 11:36 next collapse

🌎👩‍🚀🔫👩‍🚀

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world on 07 Aug 12:58 collapse

“diplomats”

No man, those people got fired in like week 1.

ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net on 07 Aug 11:55 next collapse

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.

BakerBagel@midwest.social on 07 Aug 14:24 next collapse

Yeah, thry are neoliberals interested in maintaining the neoliberal world order that has existed for the past 50 years.

DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social on 07 Aug 17:40 collapse

Regardless they should know that if you pay the Danegeld you’ll never be rid of the Dane.

They still haven’t shaken him!

PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz on 07 Aug 18:43 next collapse

Apparently this 15% bullshit trade deal is not ratified yet, so it can still be canceled

Gsus4@mander.xyz on 08 Aug 04:10 next collapse

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.

ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net on 08 Aug 06:38 collapse

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.

bstix@feddit.dk on 08 Aug 07:00 collapse

Same for the United States of America.

fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works on 08 Aug 08:53 collapse

Heck China and Russia are both as well.

There seems to be a theoretical maximum to the number of people or area per nation state

danzabia@infosec.pub on 08 Aug 04:36 next collapse

I’m curious what you felt the EU should have done differently.

realitista@lemmus.org on 08 Aug 09:06 collapse

Listen, no one should knowingly and willingly put their countries through more pain just to “win”. I’m sure they calculated that the reduction in destruction was worth a try. They have levers to pull if it doesn’t, but it will just create a lot of destruction for all sides.

alvyn@discuss.tchncs.de on 07 Aug 12:50 next collapse

Marco Rubio, fuck you, you piece of shit!

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world on 07 Aug 12:57 next collapse

What a disgusting pigfucking punk this piece of shit turned out to be. When he was a Senator he was “just” awful. Goddamn I hope The Fates have something cooking up for him.

neblem@lemmy.world on 07 Aug 13:08 next collapse

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?

roude@lemmynsfw.com on 07 Aug 14:14 next collapse

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).

dubyakay@lemmy.ca on 07 Aug 18:02 collapse

prototype app

Ahh yes, the app that coincidentally locks mobile OSes into the google ecosystem. 🤮

roude@lemmynsfw.com on 07 Aug 18:59 collapse

It is a prototype.

Their development roadmap specifically mentions Android AND iOS versions…

dubyakay@lemmy.ca on 07 Aug 20:16 collapse

Yes. But it excludes any sort of custom OS versions due to the way it’s implemented. So no Lineage, no Graphene.

Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de on 07 Aug 15:50 collapse

The Wikipedia page doesn’t sound too bad, but IANAL.
The regulation linked from the wiki article only includes the word “age” three times and actually states:

[…] this prohibition should not lead the provider of the online platform to maintain, acquire or process more personal data than it already has in order to assess if the recipient of the service is a minor. Thus, this obligation should not incentivize providers of online platforms to collect the age of the recipient of the service prior to their use.

Haven’t looked at it any more than that, but it sounds like it’s already been in effect for ~2 years?

bigmamoth@lemmy.world on 07 Aug 14:07 next collapse

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

BigDiction@lemmy.world on 07 Aug 14:15 next collapse

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.

technopagan@lemmy.world on 07 Aug 19:05 collapse

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.

BigDiction@lemmy.world on 07 Aug 20:19 collapse

Also NAL and different sizes of platforms have different obligations. Could be wrong that the scenario I described applies to Lemmy.

phoenixz@lemmy.ca on 07 Aug 14:26 next collapse

… 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!

Gsus4@mander.xyz on 08 Aug 00:48 next collapse

Oh look, the tech companies sent a shit eating emissary to tell us how to live our lives so as to exploit us better…

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today on 08 Aug 05:08 next collapse

remember they tried to do this in south america, tried to start a coup and they were expelled. It’s easy to expel this diplomats and request new ones

Gsus4@mander.xyz on 08 Aug 12:20 collapse

Lula won with 50.5%. That is how close they were to being enslaved again. It is not easy.

Formfiller@lemmy.world on 08 Aug 06:19 next collapse

Sending technofacism and corruption overseas

SabinStargem@lemmy.today on 08 Aug 06:29 next collapse

I hope the EU becomes nationalistic in response to this ‘outreach’. It is clear that Dogey America intends to violate Europe on every level.

drspawndisaster@sh.itjust.works on 08 Aug 09:50 collapse

You don’t need to be a nationalist to hate nationalists. In fact it kinda helps if you aren’t.

dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 08 Aug 13:26 collapse

Liberals love nationalism

MapleEngineer@lemmy.world on 08 Aug 10:22 next collapse

Yet Trump has made combating censorship - particularly what he sees as the stifling of conservative voices…

including hate speech and child sexual abuse material.

To be very clear.

abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 08 Aug 10:41 collapse

Doesn’t the US have KOSA incoming, which would do the exact same thing?