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  • Snoop Dogg fans appalled by rapper’s performance at Trump inauguration party

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  • The people in the government will now have to follow Trumps orders since he has the power to fire them and he wants to use it widely to replace them with yes-men. Yes the people working in the government are serving the people not the president. But you know he will get rid of people who won't show him loyalty and for 4 years he's kinda their boss. Collaborator makes it sound like the republican party is occupying the US illegally which it is not since they won (sadly).

    The citizens of the US (the free people you're talking about) voted him into office by their own volition

  • My attempt at explaining the fediverse in a way that is more fun and engaging

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  • Maybe you could take a two way approach. Have a small set of default instances and then a button that gives the option to choose in the beginning. Like a mixed approach but I don't like the idea of consolidation on the fediverse

  • Google decides it won't comply with EU fact-checking law

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  • The EU. I don't use google search. I use a degoogled android rom firefox and only use the bare minimum of google search engines. I think the government should promote conditions where fair competition against google is actually possible.

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  • I'm all for legislation that properly makes companies price in external effects. What I do not support is the state taking an active role in the market. Legislation is created for a reason but needs to be reformed and slimmed down once in a while. The government does not adjust fast enough imo and I think it should focus on core tasks instead of creating search engines.

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  • So much for having a reasonably discussion. Calling me a hopeless nerd. You sure must be fun to be around.

    Its not just an server name since the moderators there remove stuff that doesn't fit their narrative and people with according ideology often are on these servers. It makes a real difference. You can check it out because users that find an instance that fits their personal beliefs create their account there and its a Marxist Leninist community. But you don't actually seem to care.

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  • Look, the goverment is good at providing a good starter set of things you need for life. Infrastructure has no real competition so the infrastructure needs to be state owned since we can't have it fail. I would look favorably if the government funded an open initiative to build a FOSS search index... but I think a search engine isn't something like core infrastructure that can only reasonably exist once.

    Besides... SearxNG is just a relay engine and if every european used it and relayed the search request to other search engines without them getting a dime I don't think that would be fair.

    Lemmy also isn't developed by the state. It might get funding from the goverment but thats a very different thing - Core research that doesn't have a straight up ROI is also one of the things where everyone benefits of it long term falls under something the government should do. I just don't think the government is good at running an economical business and I can't imagine living in a country where every company was like state-run with a top-down system. Competition is good, what we have is a lack of competition

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  • I have switched away from google mostly. Most people can do so too. Yes they do have a monopoly on search and I think the government should take steps to ensure fair competition but I don't think the ban hammer should be wielded this lightly. If they pay the fine. Searxng is just a relay search engine and I doubt it is legal for such a big instance to use search engines as back end, have them run it for free and then have the people use Searx instead.

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  • Because our legal system is made in a way where they technically are not a crime

  • Snoop Dogg fans appalled by rapper’s performance at Trump inauguration party

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  • Based on personal believes I wouldn't like perform for Trump if I was in Snoops position. But there's no denying that Trump is legitimately the president starting this evening and by your logic anyone that works for trump directly or indirectly as part of the government legitimizes or serves Trump as president in one way or another

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  • They use bing tho. I personally like Qwant as they fall under GDPR and are european. Also they are working on building an independent search index.

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  • Reddit search engine? Hell nah I want more federated communities. Reddit has a contract with google anyways that blocks out foreign web crawlers.

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  • List a country with a decent population of like at least 50 mio people that competes with companies successfully and fairly. Countries with a smaller population don't have as much of a bureaucratic overhead. But even there... where do they offer a better service in a fair competition with companies

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  • People from hexbear or lemmygrad are atrocious tho. ML is a bit better but still

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  • Nah I don't think the government should run a search engine

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  • Fine the heck out of them then. If they don't pay the fine ban em. Plenty of alternatives out there. More competition in the search engine market would be better anyways.

    Not too big of a fan of banning companies as the hurdles should be decently high... Especially if many people rely on their service but if they won't comply with our jurisdiction long term I see this as the only option as fees can not be order of business to pay

  • In a first, EU Court fines EU for breaching own data protection law

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  • Makes me wonder where the fines go to 🤔

  • jointhefediverse.net - Why was Lemmy removed from the list of fediverse alternatives?

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  • I mean the person maintaining this site just chose to not recommend it themself based on valid concerns. Nothing is stopping you from looking into lemmy and using it anyways.

  • New York Times rejects Quaker ad for calling Israel’s actions “genocide”

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  • The values a newspaper represent and in which political direction they lean do not have to be the same just because they're owned by wealthy people or publicly traded.

    I also wouldn't classify any big corporation categorically far right just because they are big. Calling something far right/extremist just because you are not a fan of it doesn't change what constitutes reality. This take is completely unhinged. What exactly is intrinsic about the political leaning?

  • New York Times rejects Quaker ad for calling Israel’s actions “genocide”

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  • You can call the NYT a bunch of things but I'd argue its hardly far right fascist propaganda.