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Absolutely spot on. To think that your data is safe in the EU while the EU is actively pursuing ID checks for social media and pushing Chat control every 6 months is delusional. No…

But you are cheery picking a few things while ignoring others. In the US, you are free to buy a gun and walk around with it. In the EU you can't But if you ask a person from the EU…

> China has not known freedom for some time, but citizens of the United States have a long experience of it. This sort of statements are too broad and impossible to falsify. Freedo…

Nobody is stopping the western countries of doing the same exact thing with their own industries. As a matter of fact, the EU and the US are subsiding a lot of their own companies …

And you believe that no other western country on this planet is doing the same exact thing? Every country spies on its enemies, allies and trade partners. That is just the name of …

The worst part of this whole enterprise is not the designs per se (although the buildings look like soulless buildings from the former USSR but that is besides the point), it is th…

As always the EU does not disappoint regarding it's stance on privacy. What a joke.

Your comment is all over the place and you are moving the goal posts quite a bit. Since we are talking about Renault specifically, I will assume that you are not French otherwise y…

> But what annoys me the most about the article is this constant praise of „China Speed“, Cost-Advantages and Love of the Free Market, as if not every single Chinese Automaker, inc…

Ads in my opinion are not the problem. The problem is the expectation that services/apps/radio/tv-channels need to be free when we know that there is nothing really free in this wo…

But that is a the problem though. You get stronger job protection because its very hard to find a job. If you could find a new job quickly and if the job market was more fluid, you…

I mean we are still waiting for the European Apple or Microsoft or Google or anything of that scale aren't we? China has it's own version of all this stuff, where is Europe's?

Not OP but to respond to your question, like everything, there is a scale to this question. Would you give to the state 30% of your income to pay for public services? Most people w…

> What does this rant have to do with the linked report in this article? This is not a rant. I responded to OPs message point by point and simply expressed my opinion on these matt…

> Calling out blatant lying and bot propaganda isn't "smearing the opposition". I am not sure what you are trying to get at. Are you implying that this new draft is not in any way …

I appreciate the support but I am not surprised. Even on HN there is been a surge of users who instead of defending their arguments or positions on certain sensitive topics such as…

Politics and tech are basically intertwined at this point. Tech is also intertwined with Geo-politics, tax policies, mental health, and a bunch of other issues. One cannot talk abo…

> There is no such thing as the EU wants X. There are huge differences between what the European Commission, the European Council, and the majority of the European Parliament want.…

> EU enshrined privacy in its charter of fundamental rights. GDPR was and still is a major protection. GDPR does not protect you from governments snooping on you. The same way it d…

Here we go again with new restrictions on civil liberties. This is Chat Control all over again. The EU won't stop until it has access to all your data, all your messages, anything …

I a sure it's Russian propaganda that the EU has basically tried for the last 3 years to ban encryption so that it can access all your personal messages without a warrant? Or is it…

> I'm old enough to remember internal borders with passport checks in Europe, before the wall fell and Poland was still on the other side of that. Nice to see them moving on from t…

Trust has been eroded for the last 30 years for many reasons and most of them are due to how the politicians and public institutions have behaved. In all western countries, if you …

> I looked at the 5 examples for a bit. Reading the Wikipedia talk pages, I'd tend to agree that the sources removed are representing a fringe idea and that the Wikipedia process h…

And the next question is who's to blame? News organizations each push their own agendas by misrepresenting facts or present rumors or second comments as certainty. Then months late…