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Re:FCC commissioner wants TikTok removed from app stores ove... by robonerd on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @05:05PM (#31925706)
Dear Europeans; Please stop threatening that and start actually doing it. Please. Americans taking these American companies down a peg seems completely intractable. Please Europeans, you are the best hope we have. Ban American tech companies!
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Re:FCC commissioner wants TikTok removed from app stores ove... by nivenkos on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @05:09PM (#31925736)
The EU is just an American puppet though - there is no investment or support for European alternatives or FOSS projects, etc.
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Re:FCC commissioner wants TikTok removed from app stores ove... by john_yaya on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @05:28PM (#31925933)
Huh? The EU’s GDP and population are significantly greater than the US.
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Re:FCC commissioner wants TikTok removed from app stores ove... by yorwba on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @06:32PM (#31926504)
US GDP is bigger than the EU's https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?location...
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Re:FCC commissioner wants TikTok removed from app stores ove... by mwint on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @06:21PM (#31926403)
And yet Europe is more or less dependent on the US for defense. That’s probably the bigger lever.
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