You clearly have no idea about how the european union works. It is a much lighter touch on society in general than the us is. We might not have as much gun freedom, but on pretty much every other scale I’d rate the EU higher than the US on «liberty».
No one is banning books about gay people in my kids school for example.
Either way curtailing big tech with regulation has nothing to do with big brother. They are regularing companies, not individuals.
This conversation is clearly talking about the good or bad that the EU does. Are those books banned because of the EU? Would they stop being banned if Poland or Hungary was not part of the EU?
If you, personally, end up restricted from doing things you used to (pay for my software, for example) — you gave up liberty for security, and now have neither.
I’m Canadian, by the way. We now can go to prison for wanting to call our children the name we gave them at birth.
The NSA is the biggest of Brothers in the world and supposedly the country keeps on innovating and big tech power is strongest here. How do you square that circle?
No one is banning books about gay people in my kids school for example.
Either way curtailing big tech with regulation has nothing to do with big brother. They are regularing companies, not individuals.