• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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    The “move fast, break things” shtick. They mean laws with it. Worst case, you pay a fine.

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      If the world was a just place they’d pay a fine and pay to have new trees planted where the old ones where removed. Anything short of that is simply the cost of doing business.

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    There should be criminal investigations over that and prosecution of Google employees or their contractors, whoever was operating in Finland (and someone had to). If that was indeed all legal, than laws need to be changed.

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    All because normies can’t take it upon themselves to do any research and change search engines and stop using google products…we gave them this power.

    I hate people.

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      I’m doing my part.

      Even made a video to help people get away from Google search.

      (TLDW: If you’re stuck using Google, switch to udm14.com. For a good commercial search alternative, use Mojeek. For a non-commercial search alternative, try Marginalia Search.)

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      Individual action as a way to effect change or “voting with your dollar” is a myth that these large corporations benefit from. Sure, we should stop using their services, but you’re never going to convince people to individually give things up in the hundreds of millions.

      You gotta force legislators into actually doing their jobs, and failing that, burn down the fucking data centers.

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        While I agree, its apathy and stupidity that led us to this point. Big tech would have nowhere near this much power if every single person didnt willingly hand out all of their data at every turn and use every big tech product that was advertised to them.

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          It is capitalism that got us corporations and data centers. nobody voted to live under capitalism, and the last time people tried to do anything else we had a civil war over it. blaming the actions of a government and the completely undemocratic system it derives its power from on the people it governs is stupid. you should blame those in power, the politicians and their capitalist overlords, instead of the people who mostly have no say in what their government decides to do to them.

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      Knowing Finland’s governments, it won’t be even those. They’ll more likely take Google’s side and tell the population how it’s a price we must pay for being competitive, and how we need these foreign corporations raping Finnish nature to create jobs and shit. No European bougie gives a shit about the countries they lead or the populations they claim to represent.

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        Well, the current government is run by corporate puppets and right wing nutters that were willing to do anything just to be called ministers.

        Not very hard to guess how this is gonna go.

        • Narri N. (they/them)@lemmy.ml
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          Yup, that’s true. For me it seems that even the nominally leftist and ““socialist”” seem to be of like minds with the corporate stooges.

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        “Petteri Orpo, said attracting investment was a ‘top priority’ and ‘the value of the data economy extends far beyond direct investment’” Bull. Shit. Unless they have a plan to tax the snot out of this DC they’ll get nothing but resource drain and a handful, maybe two handfuls, of jobs.

        I think what happens is that governments look at the plans and their brains light up thinking it’s like an old-time factory. The AI company then shows how many people will be employed in construction and let’s the official go on and think that work will continue.

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          No that’s just for the poors and proles. The corporations will never face repercussions because the politicians are in their C-suite

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      Nah just some rage click farming as a distraction from telling everyone only America is this pathetic.