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I agree with you. CIA is much worse. Sinaloa's evil is regional, CIA's evil is global.

Would it be ok if Facebook hired someone who was part of the Sinaloa Cartel? If you hire ex-CIA, that tells me everything about your ethics (or lack there of).

cia is an organization that uses torture (among other unethical things). if you ever worked for such an organization, I'm not even looking at rest of your cv. your ethics are clear…

this particular report is accurate.

If you were previously part of an organization that violates human rights, I have every right to hold it against you.

Tell that to China, they seem to be doing fine without Google/Amazon/Facebook. Of those companies, Google is probably the only one you can't remove without effort. But this article…

also accurate

I live in a country that is not USA. Why should we allow a company led by CIA agents to operate in our country?

> Almost every analyst agrees that First rule of international conflicts: analysts in the press are almost always off by several orders of magnitude. Specifically, these analysts t…

I can confirm this story by looking at the guys linked in page.

Last I checked Russia was still making progress. Unlike the first days, they are not rushing, but taking their time to eliminate defenders with artillery strikes.

EU is one of the largest consumer markets there is. US Tech companies are probably regretting the day they left China. They won't make the same mistake again.

you work at facebook?

These rules only apply to large organizations: "gatekeepers" that have massive global revenue and market power.

These regulations apply only to "Gatekeepers", meaning large companies with huge revenue and market power.

Being car critical is more than just a safety issue. I moved from the US to Germany and exchanged commuting by car to commuting by bicycle. The positive impact on my quality of lif…

My field (theoretical physics) has the opposite problem. Almost all tools support only Linux but university infrastructure and incoming students are Linux-illiterate. A Linux strat…

citation needed.

Thankfully the EU is stepping up.

The European Union is a huge market. If Google or Apple doesn't comply then they say goodbye to those profits.

This law is also hitting Google in a big way. Google has to give up their monopoly on many areas.

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

Those of us who are not American prefer that the internet is not owned by a small number of American megacorps. EU is responding to that.

Apple loves to claim that Apple is more secure, without offering any data to back it up.