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Re: Nigeria fines Meta $220M for violating consumer, data laws

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Post by bdjsiqoocwk » Mon, Jul 22, 2024, 6:58 AM UTC

muro wrote: post #30

chipdart wrote: post #29

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> You are describing common procedures here. Welcome to EU. /s You are grossly uninformed. Some EU countries even encoded in their own constitution how the state neither has the right to gather specific types of data on their population, such as race and political affiliation, but also they can't gather data that can used to track people, such as cross-referencing data across ministries. Please provide any substance…

EU (Europe in general) has an enormous bureaucracy, that wants to know everything about its citizens e.g. you have to register after every move. Then on top of requiring the state knows, you have an expectation of privacy.

If you're going to make this claim, here's what else you should specify before your comment has any meaning at all:

- how do you measure the size of a bureaucracy

- what is the size of EU's bureaucracy

- what make it qualify as enormous, or compared to what

Failing that, stop parroting right wing memes.

Re: Nigeria fines Meta $220M for violating consumer, data laws

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Post by legacynl » Mon, Jul 22, 2024, 1:28 PM UTC

bdjsiqoocwk wrote: post #41

muro wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

EU (Europe in general) has an enormous bureaucracy, that wants to know everything about its citizens e.g. you have to register after every move. Then on top of requiring the state knows, you have an expectation of privacy.

If you're going to make this claim, here's what else you should specify before your comment has any meaning at all: - how do you measure the size of a bureaucracy - what is the size of EU's bureaucracy - what make it qualify as enormous, or compared to what Failing that, stop parroting right wing memes.

And the example of extreme data collection he comes up with is having to register where you live? It would be funny if he wasn't serious.

Re: Nigeria fines Meta $220M for violating consumer, data laws

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Post by jeda96 » Thu, Jul 25, 2024, 7:34 PM UTC

Ylpertnodi wrote: post #28

jeda96 wrote: post #15

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Is Nigerian a race? Did those emails not happen? Given the terrible (deliberate) grammar mistakes, should we criticise any criticisms for also being elitist?

Nigerian is not a race, it doesn’t need to be a race for this to be a racist trope. Reacting to this story with a Nigerian scam email joke is racist. As it is completely irrelevant to the topic being discussed and it is used to dismiss the claims made in the article.

If the Israeli government imposed a fine and then someone on here decided to respond with a joke on how much interest the Israeli’s would make on the fine or whether the fine would be paid in gold coins. That would be racist trope. Whether it happened in the past or not is not important.

It is up to you to remain educated, but I would be careful making Nigerian scam jokes especially around black people. If you want to say racist things, endeavor to do so in private.