[olivermuty]

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.

[tough]

You've liberty to be poor, die without healthcare, or get rekt in court by a megacorp with infinite lawyer money

[csmpltn]

> "No one is banning books about gay people in my kids school for example."

Check out some of the schools in Poland, or Hungary.

[Drakim]

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?

[DangitBobby]

The US government similarly has nothing to do with states like Florida going off the deep end.

[8note]

I think this is saying that all the good things in EU countries are the result of being in the EU, while none of the bad is?

[olivermuty]

If anything, what would unban those books is pressure by the EU.

[pjkundert]

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.