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Re:I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Handed Over by csmpltn on Saturday February 21, 2026 @12:51PM (#47103000)
Nobody cares. They keep a skeleton crew office in the EU for compliance purposes only. Whether they have an office in the EU or not is inconsequential. If they closed it tomorrow, the EU would literally have nothing to go after...
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Re:I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Handed Over by Supernaut on Saturday February 21, 2026 @02:45PM (#47103970)
> They keep a skeleton crew office in the EU for compliance purposes only

According to LinkedIn, they have over 2,000 employees in Dublin alone.

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Re:I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Handed Over by lejalv on Saturday February 21, 2026 @01:39PM (#47103410)
You're saying they are buccaneers, and validating that as the fundamental working principle of American capitalism.
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Re:I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Handed Over by csmpltn on Saturday February 21, 2026 @01:58PM (#47103587)
Call them whatever you want. All I'm saying is that Europeans are hypocrites for fucking over their greatest ally via unenforceable and anti-competitive regulation that's not worth the paper it's written in (and that European institutions have even exempted themselves from). The one ally that they desperately depend on for safety and security, technology, medicine, research, etc.
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