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I would love for the EU to just go all-out hardcore privacy protection and fine GAFAM et al. into fucking oblivion for not complying. If they shut down services, that's probably for the better, although it will be a rough awakening for most people (probably including myself)
GAFAM?
Google Amazon Facebook Apple Microsoft 👉 big tech
Aka facegoomicrappama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tQzCqkIQ60
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=2tQzCqkIQ60
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.
Just a guess:
Google
Amazon
Facebook
Apple
Microsoft
The big 5 tech: Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft
There's a few other acronyms for the same, this is the one I remember most often
Protectionism🤮
Protecting people is good, actually
But Freely Trading people is bet-
Wait a second.