Europe community on dbzer0. Intended to be a place to discuss European news, politics, or just general topics from a European perspective. Since this is on dbzer0 expect the community to lean more leftist-anarchist but a wide range of views are accepted here (within reason).
Rules:
1. No Bigotry or Hate Speech
Any forms of Homophobia, Transphobia, Queerphobia, Racism, or Ableism will be met with swift and harsh action and will not be tolerated here whatsoever. Bigots will be banned immediately on-sight. This includes apologia of it.
Trying to be politely or intellectually bigoted i.e. "Just asking questions" won't be tolerated.
2. No Zionism
Any forms of Zionism or Zionist rhetoric will not be tolerated here, this includes Zionist apologia, accusations of antisemitism towards anti-Zionists, or blatant denial or downplaying of the genocide towards Palestinians. Any attempt to uphold or prop up the IHRA definition of antisemitism, will be treated as Zionism.
Anyone engaging in Pro-Zionist sentiment or apologia will be actioned in accordance with its severity.
Note: Trying to find loopholes or whataboutery to see what is or isn't genocide denial or Zionism will be treated as a violation of this rule. Don't test us.
3. Stay Civil
Please maintain civil discourse in the community. Do not engage in arguments with others, name-calling, or insults. Note that calling out bigotry or Zionism is not considered an insult. In heated arguments users are encouraged to or even required to disengage failure to do so will result in mod action.
4. No Misinformation
Spreading of misinformation intentionally in this community is unacceptable and will not be tolerated. Spreading misinformation hurts the credibility of the community and can mislead people sometimes in dangerous ways. Users who intentionally post misinformation as articles, comment answers, or in attempt to win arguments will be actioned swiftly.
Note: This includes Russian and Chinese propaganda. Users with a history of such posting will be banned on sight.
5. No AI Content
Please do not post articles or content primarily created using generative AI. Generative AI content may contain misinformation or be lower quality and thus is discouraged. Posts and comments featuring it will be removed. However this community does not allow or tolerate Anti-AI trolling or hostility and users who engage in such behavior will be actioned for it, additionally Anti-AI trolling violates Rule 3 and often Rule 4 so it is generally unacceptable already.
Note: Rules 1 & 2 may be subject to preemptive mod action due to their severity, and they apply to a user's entire post history. Not just this community.
Funny that they are complaining about a restriction put in place by Google that they have no control over. So either Google already backdoored Pixels for them or more likely they know they can just bully FOSS devs without direct legal repercussions...
Will no one rid us of these meddlesome lawmakers?
Te French have a good track record for doing that. Maybe this will be the breaking point
They even invented a machine to help them with the tedious bits.
I think the majority of voters support this behaviour. Most people would gladly give away their privacy for the promise that the bad other (be it racial, economical, religious, ... whomever you want to scapegoat) will be hurt, too.
How do you make such an inference? This is a divisive rhetoric out of the blue that is echoing anti-democratic propaganda aimed at sowing division among society.
Dont use google or apple of meta but also dont use EU tech. Where am i supposed to get my tech?
Latam, asia, africa?
Latin America, Africa - there's not a huge amount of tech coming out of there.
Asia - they're definitely not any better.
Honestly, at the moment, Europe is probably the best source despite definitely still having significant problems (I'm looking at you, lawmakers who are trying to push through chat control).
there's not a huge amount of tech coming out of there.
That's opportunity! Glass halve full :) When it comes to renting infrastructure, there's plenty of options in Latam and Asia. I haven't looked at Africa to be honest.
Asia - they're definitely not any better
Japan, Taiwan, S. Korea are in asia too. It's not just China and Vietnam.
significant problems
The lack of free speech laws in EU is also a very big problem. EU cares very little for the individual's rights.
EU cares very little for the individual’s rights
Compared to who?
Compared to a reasonable, empathic person
So not any of the world's governments or corporations