DoucheBagMcSwag,

This is definitely to avoid the ire of fuhrer trump

cupcakezealot,
@cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

wish the eu would just actually ban american companies there is really no need for them anyway

xenomor,

Given that we are going full authoritarian fascist now, perhaps the EU should ban Google, given the US tik tok precedent.

ByteOnBikes,

What a twist. In the 90s, the internet forced countries to wake up to the new modern era. It was a combination of American companies wanting both to expand and provide goodwill.

And now, this new era is going to tell American companies to fuck off.

PanArab,

Fascism is good for business.

homesweethomeMrL,

And not a single bit of this would matter at all if YOU PEOPLE* would just know a damned thing!

*present company excepted, of course.

Free_Opinions,

Who decides what the facts are?

muntedcrocodile,
@muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee avatar

The fact checkers obviously

fluxion,

Reality

Saleh,

Who decides what reality is?

fluxion,

Physics

BestBouclettes,

Evidence and records mostly ?

cyd,

Google has behind it an incoming US government that puts US economic interests first, and relishes bullying its allies. The EU is weak, divided, and geostrategically boxed in. It will bend the knee.

drspod,

The EU is weak, divided, and geostrategically boxed in

lol ok

slaacaa,

Have you ever looked at a map? America can just float anywhere

endeavor,

Hows apple lightning cable doing?

cybersandwich,

I gotta say that seemed pretty performative considering apple was obviously already moving that way with usb-c on all their devices.

Mr_Blott,

Not often I actually lol at a comment. Well done

FarceOfWill,

The EU is doing great. It can pay for loads of stuff with the endless fines American tech companies rack up

troed,
@troed@fedia.io avatar

hahahahahahahahahahaha

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/europe/article/2025/01/08/meta-studying-eu-impact-of-end-to-fact-checking-says-french-minister_6736836_143.html

AceSLS,

Good, hope they get banned in the EU so people will switch to competitors

MagicShel,

I could see the EU backing down a few years ago, but these days they have watered down any actual advantage in search by filling their results with ads and low quality content. Not that I use Reddit any more, but a good Reddit search engine would probably be better for a lot of use cases.

Petter1,

Luckily google bought exclusive rights to query Reddit

timestatic,

Reddit search engine? Hell nah I want more federated communities. Reddit has a contract with google anyways that blocks out foreign web crawlers.

slaacaa,

I would love that. I still use google products, because I was too lazy to switch, a ban would give me the incentive to move to another platform

Korhaka,

DuckDuckGo: Use us because Google is so evil they were banned in Europe

timestatic,

They use bing tho. I personally like Qwant as they fall under GDPR and are european. Also they are working on building an independent search index.

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