• mikenurre@lemmy.world
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    Google broke the law? Only one thing to do, TAX AMERICANS AS PUNISHMENT! Where are those Epstein files?

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      I’d say tax them like any other business and fine them because they broke the rules though.

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    Trump’s intervention came a day after he hosted tech titans for a gala dinner at the White House including Google’s chief executive Sundar Pichai and co-founder Sergey Brin.

    corruption used to be veiled and hidden…

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    The main problem is that far too many Europeans mindlessly cling to everything google. There are plenty of suitable European alternatives. Probably not for every use case, especially in business, but more than enough to grow European tech and support European business. https://buy-european.net/en/alternatives

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      • Qwant.com
      • Protonmail / tutanota
      • Nextcloud
      • Ovh, Hetzner
      • OSM
      • Immich
      • Collabra Office
      • Lineage, Graphene or e/O
      • Librewolf, Firefox, Vivaldi …

      You really don’t need google, even if you think you do.

  • Ron@zegheteens.nl
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    Just up the fine after every threat. Ok president Trump, the fine is not $7 billion after a 100% tariff

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    Thats why i didnt celebrate the fine yesterday, because as long as the EU is dependent on US military support in Ukraine, they will do nothing that really pisses of Trump.