Comment on GrapheneOS Under Threat: EU Age Verification And Google Changes Endanger Privacy-Focused Android
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 year agoThe EU should have had no ability to make Apple allow alternative app stores or have to accept alternate in-app payments. They should have no ability to force Microsoft to give new users a choice to use a competitors browser on startup. For example.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Whether they should or shoudn’t is a different question though. You said “overstepping their bounds” and “they’re doing things that everyone knows is authoritarian”. If they have authority to do that, it can’t be that.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 year ago
Another example I just saw posted about right now:
x.com/globalaffairs/status/1955272637984211407
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 year ago
They just do whatever they want though, because there’s no one to pull them up.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Sure there is. There are multiple Europen Union courts and so far they complied with every single rulling. When they fail to do so, we can start talking about authoritarianism or abuse of power.