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i am really worried about what's going on in eu (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by andazzo_generale@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Every day we get closer to an Orwellian society. The United Kingdom may already be one.

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[-] upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

As an American it's nice to see were not the only ones in a complete downward spiral.

EDIT: wild that there are users pretending to be butthurt by this obviously joke comment so they can farm upvotes from the tens of users on Lemmy

[-] BryceBassitt 1 points 1 day ago

It's nice to see that the rest of the world is just as bad as U.S.

[-] fubbernuckin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 2 days ago

As an American, no it's not nice. Why would I want more of this shit elsewhere?

[-] blargh513@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

Also, Americans are subject to supporting this bullshit. If any company in the us (or in the world really) owns or maintains data that the EU qualifies as adult-oriented, they have to either maintain a means of actively prevent EU users or support the filtering and tracking that the EU mandates. If not, they can be fined by the EU, and as long as there is a financial relationship between the us and EU, the fines will be enforced.

This has global impact.

I'm curious if more companies will move their hosting to countries that are non compliant with EU regulations and move to accepting payment from cryptocurrency only. I would not be surprised if x-rated content providers were to move to such places.

[-] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 14 points 2 days ago

Wishing ill on people, eh?

[-] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 7 points 2 days ago

Nice? I wish it was just the US so getting to another country would make it safe for us. This is awful.

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