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  • Europe Can’t Defend Democracy on US Servers | TechPolicy.Press

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  • Now, I suppose you would agree that Amazon US cannot sell me (in Italy) an item that was not legal here, like gun, am I correct ?

    If you, being in Italy, caused an American to send a gun from the US to Italy, I believe Italy would prosecute you for gun smuggling. It would confiscate and possibly destroy the contraband. But I don't think they would try to prosecute the American. I've never heard of such a thing.

    Do you think maybe feelings on such matters are changing?

  • Zukunft für die Landwirtschaft: KI im Kuhstall

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  • Mit Sicherheit. Aber KI ist ein weiter Begriff. Da fällt mehr drunter als nur neuronale Netze.

  • Europe Can’t Defend Democracy on US Servers | TechPolicy.Press

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  • To be clear: You are in good company with that attitude. Lawmakers seem to view things the same way as you. I'm just trying to learn more about how that view comes about.

  • Europe Can’t Defend Democracy on US Servers | TechPolicy.Press

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  • The Atlantikwall was Nazi fortifications meant to repel the D-Day landings. I thought I would get some crap over that, but I do love dark humor. Your comment is just not what I expected, at all.

  • Downdetector spiking hard overnight

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  • Outage is ending.

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  • Europe Can’t Defend Democracy on US Servers | TechPolicy.Press

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  • Fire limes has a nice ring to it.

  • Europe Can’t Defend Democracy on US Servers | TechPolicy.Press

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  • Hmm. Reference not clear enough. I wouldn't have got it without the link. But I do like the idea of calling it the Maginot line of the internet.

  • Europe Can’t Defend Democracy on US Servers | TechPolicy.Press

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  • What does it mean to offer a service in country?

  • Downdetector spiking hard overnight

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  • Could be that your region relies on different servers, could be that only the sign-in is down.

  • Europe Can’t Defend Democracy on US Servers | TechPolicy.Press

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  • You feel that 4chan is in the UK. Can you explain how that feeling comes about?

  • Europe Can’t Defend Democracy on US Servers | TechPolicy.Press

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  • Really? That's what you find inappropriate?

  • Europe Can’t Defend Democracy on US Servers | TechPolicy.Press

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  • I was more thinking about an API. Of course, it does not make a lot of sense without a firehose.

  • Europe Can’t Defend Democracy on US Servers | TechPolicy.Press

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  • Brilliant.

    What about the EU counterpart? How about "Atlantik Feuerwall"? The British tabloids would love it.

  • Europe Can’t Defend Democracy on US Servers | TechPolicy.Press

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  • Does Masto offer ways to create your own feed like Bluesky?

  • Europe Can’t Defend Democracy on US Servers | TechPolicy.Press

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  • That's the same manipulative bullshit that was sold by the Brexiteers. Keeping rules aligned is in everyone's interest to make trade easy. The US wants to make it easy for its tech companies. Europe wants to make it easy for eg its car manufacturers. If you're aware of Dieselgate, then you know that Europe can't claim the moral high ground.

    Of course, the internet is trickier in that regard in that we all share it, in a sense. You can see the problem in the current exchange between 4chan and the UK. The UK demands that the Americans at 4chan follow its own democratic rules, which is not what I'd call democratic. The UK will have to create a national firewall to police communications.

  • On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not.

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  • I don't see what makes you so certain. The EU unambiguously wants computing devices to be more locked down. It wants responsible developers to be tracked.

    If your argument holds, then that only means that there is a loophole allowing devs to distribute apps anonymously. That's where the car analogy fails. There are exceptions for small enterprises and "open source stewards". These exist so that small players and start-ups won't be overwhelmed by bureaucracy. They are not supposed to protect dev privacy or user freedom.

    I can only repeat that I find your argument valid. I just don't believe it would stand up in court. If Google was pushing back on this, I would still back them up on such arguments. But they understandably don't.

    Unless there is a major change in attitudes in Europe, we are going to see much more mandated control and surveillance, anyway.

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  • These people are completely divorced from reality. I think they don't even know what the laws they negotiate mean.

  • On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not.

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  • If it’s bundled with the OS, it probably does.

    Components "placed on the market separately" are explicitly included a being part of the product.

    Let me try to gather this together:

    The manufacturer, the authorised representative, the importer, the distributor, or other natural or legal person shall, on request, provide the market surveillance authorities with the name and address of any economic operator who has supplied them with a software product, including software or hardware components being placed on the market separately;

    Economic operators shall, on request, provide the market surveillance authorities with the following information: (a) the name and address of any economic operator who has supplied them with a product with digital elements;

    ‘economic operator’ means the manufacturer, the authorised representative, the importer, the distributor, or other natural or legal person who is subject to obligations in relation to the manufacture of products with digital elements or to the making available of products with digital elements on the market in accordance with this Regulation;

    ‘product with digital elements’ means a software or hardware product and its remote data processing solutions, including software or hardware components being placed on the market separately;

  • What women want

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