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[–] HollowedFleshwalker@lemmy.world 46 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

The EU can fine them for things like this but it won't make much difference. To provoke long term change, we need a way to block them from our countries and that's impossible.

[–] MaggiWuerze@feddit.org 16 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

They can also enforce changes if they want access to the EU market

[–] HollowedFleshwalker@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

We can't afford to start a real war with them because they control far too much of our technology. Yes, we could threaten to block their access to our markets but what if they don't change their behaviour? Do we go through with it? Some of their services are critical to our daily lives and just one day without a few of them and entire systems would collapse.

[–] shrugs@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

sometimes you need to be stubborn and disallow all alternatives for better solutions to be developed. trying to use the big tech shit will inevitably always end in enshitification.

grow some balls, say no and create alternatives if they don't budge. nothing else will work. and as soon as you have alternatives, everything will get easier

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