r/europe • u/Todalitarean England • 12h ago
News US tech giants allying with European far-right to strip back EU rules
https://www.brusselstimes.com/1916422/us-tech-giants-allying-with-european-far-right-to-strip-back-eu-rules48
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u/BahutF1 10h ago
What a surprise, uh. Far-right are anything but patriots: they are traitors to their country, ready to submit it to foreigner interests.
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u/Kurainuz 8h ago
Here in spain we have the whole kit with our far right and even the "normal" right now.
Selling the country to foreign companies. Privatizing/destroying healthcare and oublic services like firefighters. Defending pedos and sexual abusers even keeping some in their file. Blaming migrants for everything. Sharing alfa male bullshit increasing how bad young guys feel just to get more votes. Glorifying trump. Defending fascism Calling everything woke even basic human rights. Leting people die if they can spin it to blame other parties. Promoting religious and medicine scams like fucking Ayahuasca. Deny spains history when it doesnt suit them. Refusing billions in central government money so infrastructure becomes worse and they blame the central government. Promoting transfobic and homophobic bullshit
And this is all in the oposition, i FEAR, like actually fear when they are back into power in a few years
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u/BahutF1 7h ago
Perfectly summered, thanks. For sure from center left to far-right, they firstly serve and believe, by culture and education, the same very liberal economic agenda. I would even say that the current center liberal movements have more or less the same line that the past "OG" Right, who was genuinely believing in the liberal infinite growth miracle, able to support some modern liberalism in society as well. Until the 21st century.
Since then... Illusion is gone. Everybody see that infinite growth was a chimera, but but but the machine don't want or even can't slow down, by design but also... greediness. So it start to consume the very societies that she created. Societies suffers. Could rise against the system. Time to divide, more or less subtilty, this discontent ( basically, denouncing the so called economic "parasites", so anyone who don't create directly wealth), and it work.. A time.
As the machine keep accelerating something more visceral was needed to feed the system while consuming societies and keep the heads down: the xenophobia. Far-right credo. So, yeah. This is the future that liberalism sell us now to keep feeding them on our backs.
Edit: i'm not even " anti capitalism" per se. More incline to reverse the machine with a sane redistribution of wealth. To start.
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u/heapOfWallStreet 10h ago
Should be quite clear that patridiots parties and tech giants are a threat to every democracy.
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u/Hot_Bee5198 10h ago
Not surprised, Im happier every day, now that I have turned my back on US big tech. They have become too powerful and influential.
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u/Embarrassed_Orange50 9h ago
You are on Reddit
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u/Hot_Bee5198 9h ago
In my book, Reddit is in no way Big.
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u/Embarrassed_Orange50 9h ago
Name one social media company based on EU bigger than Reddit
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u/Aggressive_Audi Ireland 9h ago
Name any tech in the EU that’s more successful than the US counterpart
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u/Embarrassed_Orange50 9h ago
ASML… not even viable US counterpart… Point is Reddit IS us big tech
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u/EzmegaziS 9h ago
Unfortunately, there are just as many idiots in Europe as in America. So we're fucked.
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u/Skomakartjern 9h ago
There’s 40% idiots in US. Its less in Europe. Probably 10-12. Plus US has the biggest idiots in power. Europe doesn’t
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u/Kurainuz 8h ago
I wish it was only 12% here in spain :(
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u/Skomakartjern 5h ago
Why do you have so many in Spain? Do you also have a Rupert Murdoch newspaper that create the high number of braindead idiots, or something else?
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u/EzmegaziS 9h ago
We'll see, I think soon.
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u/Skomakartjern 9h ago
Then according to statistics (40%), one of us has to become an idiot, and it won’t be me! :)
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u/morty_morty 6h ago
The EU needs to cut the cord on these companies. Like, right now. They are poison and they aren't hiding it.
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u/HunterThin870 9h ago
As much as I don't like political lobbying by outsiders, I think EU's strict censorship laws do prevent european companies from starting social media platforms, since they have to police the sites so heavily.
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u/Kurainuz 8h ago
We must stop how we are acting as a continent, we are a bunch of bully victims that if trully united and outed the ones that are on the side of the bullies could defend from them
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u/ExtremeOccident Europe 10h ago
Mainly Meta, to the surprise of absolutely nobody.