Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 07-Dec-2025 06:21:18 JST Blurry Moon
   https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_2934
   
   EU personally fines elon musk for, seems, kinda dumb bullshit
   • Forest of Enchantment repeated this.
   • Embed this notice
     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Sunday, 07-Dec-2025 06:31:33 JST lainy

     in reply to

     • lainy
     @sun home depot is bigger than all european startups of the last 50 years combined.
     Blurry Moon likes this.
   • Embed this notice
     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Sunday, 07-Dec-2025 06:31:34 JST lainy

     in reply to
     @sun
     
     I don't understand why the US gov kept silent on this extortion for so long.
     
     > As with most grand criminal enterprises, the EU’s grift started small. Back in 2021, it was a €746 million “fine” for Amazon, or €225 million for WhatsApp, over a bullshit “data protection” ruling. But a year later, with nothing but a thumbs up from the Biden Administration, European regulators got a little more creative. In 2022, the EU slapped Google with a €4.125 billion fine. Allegedly, the company violated foreign monopoly laws. Google “restricted competition,” regulators said, by preinstalling Chrome on Android devices. The following year, Ireland fined Meta €1.2 billion over more data protection bullshit, and Google was rocked with another €2.4 billion “fine” for favoring its products over competitors in search. Concurrently, Meta scored a slimmer €797 “fine” for anti-competition yet again, and Apple was hit with a €1.84 billion “fine.”
     
     https://www.piratewires.com/p/eu-slams-x-with-140m-fine-for-deceptive
     Forest of Enchantment and Blurry Moon repeated this.
   • Embed this notice
     Eiko Sarada (Alt/Back-Up) (echo@stereophonic.space)'s status on Sunday, 07-Dec-2025 06:32:44 JST Eiko Sarada (Alt/Back-Up)

     in reply to
     @sun
     
     >EU
     >dumb bullshit
     
     Name a more iconic duo.
     Forest of Enchantment likes this.
   • Embed this notice
     georgia (georgia@netzsphaere.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 07-Dec-2025 06:36:00 JST georgia

     in reply to

     • lainy
     @lain @sun eurobros...
   • Embed this notice
     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 07-Dec-2025 06:38:21 JST Blurry Moon

     in reply to

     • whiteline
     @whiteline the eu manufactures consent through fake grassroots social media accounts, it just doesn't control this platform. I would be happy if twitter didn't even exist though but tbh the eu funds mastodon and a world where fedverse was dominant would be way more infested with fake and unverifiable accounts
   • Embed this notice
     whiteline (whiteline@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 07-Dec-2025 06:38:22 JST whiteline

     in reply to
     @sun our governments and civil organizations are very scared of internet things being used to spread propaganda and fake grassroots campaigns and such
   • Embed this notice
     whiteline (whiteline@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 07-Dec-2025 06:41:25 JST whiteline

     in reply to
     @sun the EU does not need to manufacture consent via bots inside the EU, it has massive civil organizations to back it up, every major political party and all organizations linked to them
     
     i'm not entirely sure why americans think the EU is this conspiratorial behemoth, it's largely a function of the politics of the member states outside of being a trade union that everyone benefits from
   • Embed this notice
     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 07-Dec-2025 06:41:25 JST Blurry Moon

     in reply to

     • whiteline
     @whiteline I can't prove it because search engines suck now but it's a fact, on one point it was paying to have fake muslim immigrant accounts made to try to spike refugee community socials with deradicalization messages. the program was on public record, it just didn't disclose the accounts
   • Embed this notice
     🌈ᚩ🌈 (bonifartius@noauthority.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Dec-2025 06:47:03 JST 🌈ᚩ🌈

     in reply to

     • whiteline

     @whiteline @sun i don't have the image at hand, compare the organigrams of the EU and the USSR. they are about the same.

     eu parliament has no say in things, they can't even propose new laws. it exists only so the eu can be called democratic.

     it's an elite circle deciding things, without any control whatsoever. cases like recently the italian lady who is persecuted for bribery iirc aren't to uphold justice but to make examples of what happens if you fuck up as member of the elite circle.

     Blurry Moon likes this.
   • Embed this notice
     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 07-Dec-2025 06:48:29 JST Blurry Moon

     in reply to

     • whiteline
     @whiteline I do agree with what you said that there's not like a shadowy eu government that has an NSA and CIA like America but consent manufacture is imo definitely a thing and often done the same way, funding ngos to keep their hands clean
   • Embed this notice
     whiteline (whiteline@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 07-Dec-2025 06:48:30 JST whiteline

     in reply to
     @sun that's not consent manufacturing though, that's antiterror measures, we are quite desperate about the muslims over here so i can see this happening 100%
   • Embed this notice
     Blurry Moon (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 07-Dec-2025 07:13:22 JST Blurry Moon

     in reply to

     • mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:
     • whiteline
     @mangeurdenuage @whiteline that was an ngo thing
   • Embed this notice
     mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius: (mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 07-Dec-2025 07:13:23 JST mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:

     in reply to

     • whiteline
     @sun @whiteline
     >I do agree with what you said that there's not like a shadowy eu government that has an NSA and CIA like America
     It's not fully centralized, it kinda depends who rules what at the moment in time, remember eunomia nad and military industrial complex behind it ?
   • Embed this notice
     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Sunday, 07-Dec-2025 07:20:47 JST lainy

     in reply to

     • georgia
     @georgia @sun did we get too cocky?
     georgia likes this.
   • Embed this notice
     mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius: (mangeurdenuage@shitposter.world)'s status on Sunday, 07-Dec-2025 07:24:03 JST mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:

     in reply to

     • mangeurdenuage :gnu: :trisquel: :gondola_head: 🌿 :abeshinzo: :ignucius:
     • whiteline
     @sun @whiteline Basically the EU wants their own In-Q-Tel/BENS. That's how france lost gemplus to the CIA (company that created simcard tech) via bullshit stock acquisition/sabotage.
     But it's the wrong path imo. Look at the state of the USA by using these subversive methods now.
     Blurry Moon likes this.