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“Europe is hurtling toward digital vassalage. Under Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission president, EU laws to tackle tech giants have been either not applied or delayed, for fear of offending Donald Trump. Now leaked documents reveal that the European Commission plans to gut a central part of Europe’s digital rulebook. This will hurt Europe’s innovators and hand the future of Europe’s tech sovereignty to US firms.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/12/eu-gdpr-data-law-us-tech-giants-digital

#EU #privacy #GDPR #BigTech #hoHoHo https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115762325563043978

Nicole Parsons

@Npars01@mstdn.social replied · 6 days ago

@aral

It's amazing how quickly nations bend the knee to the oligarchs of the Heritage Foundation.
https://www.desmog.com/2025/03/14/heritage-foundation-project-2025-allies-mcc-ordo-iuris-discuss-dismantling-the-eu-european-union/

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2025/10/14/trumps-750-billion-eu-energy-deal-is-built-on-an-illusion/

https://www.desmog.com/2025/12/04/divide-and-conquer-inside-the-oil-and-gas-strategy-to-thwart-eu-green-laws/

https://www.desmog.com/2025/07/23/as-trumps-trade-deadline-looms-u-s-gas-exporters-are-sweating-over-meeting-europes-pollution-standards/

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/eus-pledge-250-billion-us-energy-imports-is-delusional-2025-07-28/

https://www.desmog.com/2025/12/18/gulfstream-lng-ceo-says-carbon-offsets-cleaner-lng-are-bullshit/

Bradley, Koch, Coors, Scaife Mellon, Seid, Uihlein

https://www.desmog.com/2025/07/31/world-economic-forum-edelman-oil-and-gaslighting-how-trump-and-corporations-manufacture-self-serving-pseudo-realities/

Funding anti-democracy initiatives for over 50 years.

https://www.desmog.com/2024/08/14/project-2025-billionaire-donor-heritage-foundation-donald-trump-jd-vance-charles-koch-peter-coors/

They funded the Jan 6 coup, Brexit, & Trump's fascist movement.
https://www.desmog.com/2025/01/21/mapped-donald-trump-transatlantic-anti-green-network/

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@alan@lighthouse.co.im replied · 6 days ago

@aral Ethics without enforcement is just branding.
Principles that don’t bite are PR.
If breaking the rule is cheaper than following it, the rule does not exist.

Ethics without teeth is consent manufacturing.

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