Their intent here isn’t to protect our online lives. It’s to block out the US spyware and replace it with fucking EU spyware (see government mandated spyware aka age verification)
It’s not that they’re doing something good… They just want to be the ones collecting the data…
Well, there’s always someone who’ll have access to your data, that’s just how life works, so do you want a say on how that’s used, how much is shared and with whom? Or do you want to hand it over to the US. To me that’s an easy choice.
Hold on a minute.
Their intent here isn’t to protect our online lives. It’s to block out the US spyware and replace it with fucking EU spyware (see government mandated spyware aka age verification)
It’s not that they’re doing something good… They just want to be the ones collecting the data…
Why did this take me so long to realize?
Well, there’s always someone who’ll have access to your data, that’s just how life works, so do you want a say on how that’s used, how much is shared and with whom? Or do you want to hand it over to the US. To me that’s an easy choice.
The purpose is neither of those two things.
They can collect that data from EU customers already now. That is not the issue. With public data it is even clearer, it is already their data.
This is primarily a strategically driven decision, to reduce dependency on an increasingly hostile US and that is a good thing.