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@antonyh @FinchHaven @AAKL I don't disagree. Just saying the Gov. sets the rules or have told these corps and indie devs what is coming down the pipe. The Gov. is to blame for this, just like in California, Colorado, Brazil and elsewhere.

Do you think I want this BS in FOSS projects? Hell no. Do I blame FOSS devs for things? Nope. I blame the Governments.

@antonyh @AAKL I was addressing @FinchHaven because they felt like making holier-than-thou comments.

EU forces Google, Apple and the rest to change their business ... like the current complaint from broadcasters about AppleTV and Siri.

Understand, I'm not defending Apple. I could careless except that it's the otherway around ... the Gov. is fucking with the citizenry and corps. My point was blame the Gov.

Anyway, I have work to do. 🫡

@FinchHaven

You try to dress me down with snarky insults and post that quote. Nice! I bet your answers to Linux questions are "RTFM, moron". ‍️

Whatever.

@antonyh @AAKL

@FinchHaven @antonyh @AAKL I live in California about 40 miles from Apple HQ, I've been in tech professionally for about 35 years so yeah. *ding* try again to make me feel small. It won't work.

@FinchHaven @antonyh @AAKL no need to be a snarky prick. These companies are being directed both overtly and covertly to do this. Don't BE that person who gets all high and mighty about things. sheesh.

@AAKL @ppb1701 @antonyh All Apple has to do is check against the age of the Apple ID, mine is almost 20 years old. If they did that and said nothing, no one would have cause to be up in arms. But all this is a bucket of dumb. It's requirements without direction just a vague "do the thing". It's BS.

@ppb1701 @antonyh @AAKL It is a PR stunt but then again the EU has been beating on Apple for years. The chose not to have the headache and cost of court battles. Is what it is but it's mostly that.

@AAKL @antonyh This is what I was saying, they bowed to pressure from the Gov.
I don't expect it to be well received, that wasn't my comment. I live in California with it's bad law that violates our Federal laws but everyone seems to be bowing to it. It's horseshit but I blame the Gov, not the software.

@antonyh @AAKL 🫡

@antonyh @AAKL You blame Apple instead of your politicians ... an odd stance.

@thelinuxEXP @tlenewspodcast these laws in the states apparently violate U.S. federal law because of a law called COPPA. So they maybe easy to get struck down. Hopefully the EU and UK have them stuck down as well.

@michelestrider @klausfiend Yes, they've driven every stupid "look over there!" thing that DJT has done for the last 13 months. Epstein's killswitch (Maxwell) didn't work out and dude was whacked in jail. Powerful people with more money than God are the cause of most of this planet's ills.