Edit: Replaced “Restrictions” in place of the word “Ban”

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    You obviously don’t understand EU, it’s far from only right to repair, but EU has many protections against American shenanigans, like tracking and storing of personal data, and right to be forgotten (GDPR). EU Also dictated Apple should allow sideloading, something Apple of course mostly circumvented, but they could face steep fines for that too.
    EU also has way stricter regulation than USA and UK on mass surveillance. And generally way better consumer protection than USA.

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      6 days ago

      EU also mandates de-anonymisation online: (1). EU also plans to have every single message one send scanned by them.

      I think the reasoning behind their decisions is simply summed up as: more power to the EU administration, less freedom for everyone else, be it US tech giants, EU citizens or small software developers.