Whack. Let consumers and sellers decide what to do with their own data

xvector · 2025-04-23T23:11:37 1745449897

This is a totally foreign idea to the EU. Offensive and crass, even.

There's something I've learnt from some time in the EU. There is not an innovative, risk-taking, freedom-loving bone in the EU culture -- they exported all those folks to the US. Their homegrown risk takers and innovators inevitably leave because of their suffocating culture around innovation, entrepreneurship, and progress. This is one of the reasons for the staggering amount of brain drain in the EU.

Most ironically, they sneer on our concept of entrepreneurship/innovation while they lag development by decades and having total and complete dependence on our technology. It is this weird moral high-horse position that amounts to a tactical foot-gun.

immibis · 2025-04-23T23:35:16 1745451316

or maybe they just don't think automated mass surveillance is a worthwhile innovation.

Like the atom bomb, you know - you shouldn't get to drop one in the middle of the city just because you invented it. Not even if it's very profitable.

xvector · 2025-04-25T02:10:40 1745547040

The atom bomb ushered an unprecedented era of peace between nuclear armed countries.

The number of men dying or getting wounded in war as a percentage of population has gone down dramatically post-nuclear.

Conventional meat-grinder warfare is all but over in nuclear countries, and we can probably thank it for not being sent to war ourselves.

We also got atomic energy out of it which is cool.