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[–] Haui@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don’t disagree on your view of MS and google but I do on the politics.

Even huge corporations need to abide by the law (or pay fines) e.g. usb-c charging. We can do it, we just need to stay on topic. Discussing why google and ms (and others) wont do it is only going to hurt the idea because people love to hear „but we can’t change it anyway so you don’t have to do anything“. Instead we forget what naysayers there definitely will be and just push for it.

We need to get this out there.

[–] Catweazle@social.vivaldi.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Haui, Google, MS must certainly comply with the legislation and it is seen that in the EU (GDPR) the corresponding PPs do not contain these atrocities like those for a US user. But this is not the central point, apart from the fact that they sometimes prefer to pay the fines because it is more profitable for them, it is the inherent ethics of their policy that lessens trust in their services, because it is also clear that they will always try to circumvent the legislation for their purposes.

[–] Haui@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Catweazle@social.vivaldi.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Haui, the biggest risk now is this Google MEI DRM crap, this can be the ring to rule them all, disguised as "security feature" 🥶

[–] Haui@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

Absolutely correct. btw. I think it is WEI.