@ocdtrekkie @catraxx @EU_Commission yeah.

Same with the #EU making VAT mandatory to be paid at the customers' juristiction and not the tax avoidance juristiction of the #GAFAMs, which basically killed a lot of superior domestic competition like #AndroidPit's #AppCenter which had way more favourable terms for customers AND developers/publishers!
https://web.archive.org/web/20141125020445/http://www.androidpit.de/in-eigener-sache-androidpit-schliesst-sein-app-center

Sadly there's neither #ACTA nir #TTIP so the owners couldn't sue the #EU for the added costs and loss of profit...
#sarcasm

@stephie_hamburg hinzu kommt dass #KOSA seitens der Author*inmen explizit dazu dienen soll, #Trans*personen sowie Informationen zu #queer|en Themen aus dem Internet zu verbieten.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/senator-appears-suggest-bipartisan-bill-will-censor-transgender-conten-rcna103479

Ähnlich #FOSTA, #SESTA & #CloudAct sollte dies Anstoß genug sein, nichts bei #GAFAMs oder in den #USA zu hosten oder zu speichern!

Würde mich nicht wundern wenn bald alle Leute aus den #USA auch @torproject / #TorBrowser lernen müssen so wie in Nahost...

@flexion @roobre it's classical #Enhittification...

Not everything needs to have #Cloud or #Blockchain or #Microtransactions or to be #Online...

There's hardly anything that needs #aws to add #value to a product or service...

I can imagine several scenarious, but none involve #Tamagotchi-Relaunches or shit like the #Juicero which got almost $ 1/8B or $125M from Google in funding...

IOW: If that's not evidence the #GAFAMs have more cash than sense, then we should give up as species existing.

@enigmatico At least #Microsoft works hard to increase #AttackVectors for #Azure / #Office365 / #OfficeOnline...

But hey, whoever uses that shit has basically given up on #ITsec, #InfoSec, #OpSec & #ComSec anyway and naively believes that jst because "everydoy else does it too" it won't bite them in the ass once @noybeu is done with the #GAFAMs...

@fixatedpersonsunit $20k buys a lot of weed...

And yes, I would love to see them shoving all the #GAFAMs full of fake users to the point that they've to decalre bankrupcy...

@sonjdol Betrachte es als Bonus für dich...

Wer im Jahre 2023 immernoch #NSAbook und andere #GAFAMs nutzt hat wohl nix gelernt...

BTW: Es gibt kein Recht auf einen Account, aber das wird dir jede*r gute*r Anwält*in auch sagen!

@adamkovac #LinkTax is bs as ut only penalizes #SmallSites and won't do jack shite about #GAFAMs which are #TooBigToJail because they didn't get #ShermanAntitrustAct'd in time...

@SirTapTap *nodds in agreement*

That's because on the :fediverse: #CommunityStandards get enforced far more stricter than even on #GAFAMs & :birdsite: :twitter: :deadbird:

@wedistribute Congratulations, you just cloned the #WebOfTrust that #CAcert tried to establish but got cockblocked by #GAFAMs and even @mozilla from getting off the ground because they didn't bribe said platforms with $$$$$$ to accept their certificate the same way @letsencrypt did - or at least got blessed for...

@pluralistic Exactly!

We can see this in bs policies that only strenghtened the #GAFAMs and destroyed regional and domestic competition.

For example @EU_Commission regulations re: #VAT taxation basically killed #AndroidPit as #Android #AppStore with more favourable terms than #GooglePlay:

https://web.archive.org/web/20141125020445/http://www.androidpit.de/in-eigener-sache-androidpit-schliesst-sein-app-center

@Amelia @slips @Marie still, that transparency is building and keeping trust, something that all the #GAFAMs constantly destroy themselves...

@sindarina WTF?

#Google literally - like all #GAFAMs - does an #EmbraceExtendExtinguish on #eMail, like #Microsoft does with #MAPI on #Exchange / #MicrosoftExchange & #Azure #hostedexchange

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAPI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C_extend%2C_and_extinguish#Examples_by_Microsoft

#AllGafamsAreEvil

@jgilbert this alone is why one reason to never trust #NSAbook or any other #GAFAMs...

@ianbetteridge No, #LinkTax is inherently bad because it increases #centralization as it punishes #SmallMedia and #IndependentCreators harder than it could ever penalize #GAFAMs!

@amueller einfach keine #Govware der #GAFAMs nutzen?

Dass #Microsoft nicht nur #PRISM-Teilnehmer ist.sondern auch #Backdoors wie #_NSAKEY integrierte sollte diese schon disqualifizieren...

Genauso wie mangelnde #DSGVO- & #BDSG-Compliance...

@rain And I know why maintainers may choose to do such licenses, as they don't want to become the #EarlyWormEffect and have their good project forked and gobbled up by said #GAFAMs that then make a better copy of it.

But in essence that is a problem and I think that it doesn't solve the "Money Problem" aka. #Fundraising nor will it make a product better...

#FLOSS also means the freedom to make something out of it.

@marinade so basically #GAFAMs make a shittier #OpemStreetMap!

@thatandromeda @leak did so.

The problem isn't #Cryptography, but the fact that #TechIlliterates are allowed to use #tech and that leads to the digital equivalent of 12 year olds driving gasoline tankers with neither license nor permit nor experience.

#Malware would not be the widespread issue it is today if we didn't allow the #GAFAMs to groom people into #TechIlliterate #Consoomers!

The problem are people being ignorant and openly hostile to the obvious issues...

@snaeqe @Sominemo precisely.

The penalites by @EU_Commission are insultingly low, and since the #Penalty for a #Crime is just a #Fine, it's only illegal for the poor (aka. non-#GAFAMs) to do so.

If Microsoft personnel would face jailtime then shit would be compliant!
https://mstdn.social/@kkarhan/110778946475059792

@thor @Sominemo well, they don't hecause #GAFAMs don't face #Accountability & #Consequences the way small businesses and individuals would.
https://mstdn.social/@kkarhan/110778946475059792