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[โ€“] Renohren@lemmy.today 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

And the EU will falter, again. Not its citizens, mind you, its politicians.

After a lot of fanfare, the European parliament concluded that they cannot realistically get rid of using Microsoft, Google, AWS.

The UK doesn't talk anymore about getting a backdoor into apple's E2E (probably because the US allowed that country to get a seat into icloud allongside the NSA).

Google isn't hesitant anymore about opening its AI mode in France.

the GDPR isn't fully applied: Gemini, chatGPt and others remember past conversations which is in breach of the GDPR, but it's fine, no one noticed.

French police have proof that the guy on kick didn't die because of the tortures so KICK should be fine.

Trucks are back on the market, unmodified because the EU will adapt security and emission regulations for them.

This is what bowing to Trump and his FANGS looks like. This is what all European nations are doing behind the theatre of resisting for the benefit of their citizens.