On Monday, the US Supreme Court decided in Trump v. Slaughter that the US Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) may not be independent anymore. Since 2000, the EU has relied on the “independent” FTC as the enforcer of EU-US deals on personal data. According to EU treaty law, such oversight must be independent. In the current EU-US deal, the European Commission relies on the independent FTC 259 (!) times.
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- 15 hours
Shits just getting started. This is just going to be one of many dominoes from this ruling to the ultimate demise of the USA, even if they do get rid of Trump.
This + Citizens United + President can’t be charged for official acts = game over.
The presidency is no longer trust worthy, and now every US agency is no longer trust worthy.
FDA: The drug isn’t safe
Trump: Approve it
FDA: The drug isn’t safe
Trump: You’re fired
FDA: The drug is the BEST DRUG WE’VE EVER SEEN!
Every single agency.
- architect@thelemmy.clubEnglish5 hours
Germany needed the world to fix.
Europe can not just let this happen.
- fodor@lemmy.zipEnglish16 hours
The title is wrong. SCOTUS didn’t make anything happen … the question is what EU regulators will do, and my guess is they won’t do a damn thing. But you never know!
- Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish15 hours
trump wants palantir to handle all the data, so they cant profile “dissidents against right wing governments”
- architect@thelemmy.clubEnglish5 hours
Any day?? Year? Decade!!! Actions speak louder than words and actions prove Europe leaders want this.
- architect@thelemmy.clubEnglish5 hours
It’s so fucking stupid they keep saying they will abandon our tech AND YET…
Less talky more doey guys. We are all waiting!
- cardfire@sh.itjust.worksEnglish15 hours
Enjoying my EU hosted services, and looking forward to my next-gen cloud office software from the EU, and I’m already bypassing US retail brands for most of my electronics.
There was a time that saying “buy American” wasn’t a curse or a threat.
- architect@thelemmy.clubEnglish5 hours
My eu hosted services pass through us servers. Every single one is like this. Probably because your countries are spying on Americans too, and you’re all in cahoots together.
The day that the regular people of Europe and America, realize our leaders are all mutually fucking us together and hopping over to an island to fuck kids while laughing at us will be a fucking great day.
Jesus fucking Christ STOP
That would help.with so many things if it was abrupt
- InFerNo@lemmy.mlEnglish20 hours
What’s transferred is transferred. The amount of available data is massive. Thats not even considering complacency going forward.
Not sure whether this is an oversight or an intentional breach of the treaty. Hard to tell when one side acts in bad faith.
Watching The Man in the High castle hits very different now.
People over here are seeing what is going on in the USA but
they might still vote for Reform and then we are done. The rich will make sure that they control everything including
every citizen.
Palantir, Musk, Bezos,Thiel and all the other monsters will plunder
what is left of the worlds resources and retreat to their many bunkers
or Mars. They think AI will fix the earth and according to them millions will die in the process of them remaking the world into a Technocratic feudal system.And for that they want all the data till they know more
about you than you do yourself.At least that’s what they have in their project 2025 and beyond as a plan.
They want only the “right” people to survive. It makes horrifying reading, they think of empathy and kindness as big
massive weakness,they want the sick,disabled ,lgbtq and others to die as thy are seen as a burden on their system. Sorry for the rant but I am old and these people scare me.- Arancello@aussie.zoneEnglish10 hours
Whats the worst thing pioneers could find on Mars? Microslop Teams!
- stoy@lemmy.zipEnglish15 hours
To be fair, I would love it if they fucked off to Mars.
If they did, it sure would be a shame if their radio stopped working
- cardfire@sh.itjust.worksEnglish6 hours
Oh, I didn’t say that they wouldn’t all board a vessel to Mars.
None of them are stepping foot on it, though, for sure.
It would be nice if we could deposit all of them there, for sure.
- HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish1 day
yeah its kinda surreal how this march to destruction is when your at the just trying to make it to retirement age (which looks like won’t be around then anyway)
- Acid_Burn@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish1 day
Do you have any further reading material? It feels like we haven’t gotten too far past the point of no return but I suppose once you pass that point, by definition you can’t return. Are we really that close to Snowcrash?
- Xanthobilly@lemmy.worldEnglish15 hours
Look up Curtis Yarvin and Dark Enlightenment. It’s why fElon wore a dark MAGA hat.
- triptrapper@lemmy.worldEnglish21 hours
Doug Rushkoff’s Survival of the Richest paints a really fascinating picture of the tech billionaire mindset. Rushkoff has been writing about tech for like 50 years so he’s able to explain the evolution from creative tech anarchist to fascist sociopath. “They seem to think they can design a car fast enough to outrun its own exhaust.”
This is a good explanation of project 2025. It is a roadmap to the extreme right.
Women will lose their right to vote,getting contraceptives will be hard to come
by as they want women,white women to have as many babies as possible.
They want to institutionalize all homeless,disabled and mentally ill.Withing their circles the talk of mercy killings of these people. There is so much more craziness they want to enact and people need to organize and fight back. https://nwlc.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Project-2025-Full-Report.pdf
- Zwuzelmaus@feddit.orgEnglish1 day
One big lie has been debunked.
Whether or not that means there will be more truth, well, time will tell.
- db2@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
There will never be more truth while these crazy idiots are in charge. Take the reflecting pool as example, everyone saw it being painted and they were proudly yammering about it being painted. The paint failed because they’re morons and suddenly it was terrorists cutting a 300 foot liner with a box cutter.
- Serinus@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
Oh? Tell me about your country then.
There have always been issues. There was a lot of precursor to this. But there has never been anything this bad.
America was a beacon for the world, despite our violations and blemishes. Relative to the rest of history, we were leading the world ina better direction,.
Nixon was out after Watergate. You don’t have to bribe our doctors or our cops during traffic stops. While we’re having issues with LGBTQ, we were a leader in treating people with respect for a few decades. That’s our norm.
This is Idiocracy.
- BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish17 hours
America was a beacon for the world, despite our violations and blemishes. Relative to the rest of history, we were leading the world ina better direction,.
No you fucking weren’t, this chauvinistic bullshit is no better than MAGA fascism
- Formfiller@lemmy.worldEnglish20 hours
The CIA planted crack in black neighborhoods, the fbi killed all the civil rights leaders, our government injected black men with syphillis to see what happens,the end of Jim Crow just morphed into mass incarceration for black Americans, we committed a genocide on Native Americans, we have pedophiles running our government, we’ve destabilized hundreds of governments to plunder assets ……I could go on and on we’ve always been a fascist nation. For a moment I thought we might be improving but nope all hope is lost
- Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish15 hours
and South america has mostly dictatorships thanks to the CIA.
- Serinus@lemmy.worldEnglish19 hours
I imagine if you compile a list of the worst any country has done that it’d look a lot like this.
That doesn’t excuse anything, but all those things don’t add up to Nazi Germany or 2026 Israel.
We’re working on showing you what fascism really is.
- BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish17 hours
I imagine
Yeah of course you do; because you start from a position of American exceptionalism and then just imagine backwards.
- Serinus@lemmy.worldEnglish16 hours
Oh yeah? What’s your beacon of a country? England? France? China? Russia?
The fact is we were generally dragging the world (in hand with Europe) towards better ideals, like equal rights for all, democracy, and eliminating low level corruption.
It wasn’t always the case, and was certainly in fits and starts. But in our absence I don’t see China or India having that generally positive influence on the world.
Yes, there’s room for improvement. But if we’re at a C while most other countries are content with an F, well…
USAID has done a lot of good around the world.
- BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish15 hours
Jesus, Americans really are the most propagandized people on earth
- Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
Woah guys, we got someone who fell hard for the propaganda.
The US spread fascism around the world in the form of the most destructive industry man ever invented the military industrial complex. The US has only been without conflict for a very short time in all its history.
We have committed and assisted in multiple genocides and our destruction to the environment through our proliferation of polluting technology has poisoned every single human on the planet. By my estimates we have lost close to a billion people from pollution in the last 50 years.
While I will admit the current administration of outright thieves is shocking, this type of back room dealing had always been a part of our extremely corrupt nation.
Most of what you praise is literally propaganda and very little can be attributed to reality. Sure the US has had more decorum in the past, but that ain’t saying much.
- Gregers@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
Treating people with respect, but also letting people die because they can’t afford medicine or health care. Intelligence services selling cocaine and drugging their own citizens with LSD. Privatized prisons. Invading countries for their oil. Overthrowing democratically elected governments and fucking up regions all over the world.
Yeah sure
- HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish1 day
not haveing universal healthcare while bad is nothing like the crazyness of trump. As for the rest. Pia Vesta. Operation Condor. Private prisons showed up during reagan and is part of the downward spiral that got us to current and same with invading oil rich countries. Proxy shenanigans are also very prevelant outside of the us. So what im saying is the things you list in some cases are just common in the world not just the us and in other case were fought against and is part of what lead to trump. This is different mainly because the constitution is just being flaughted outright rather than being chipped at and scotus is not defending the constitution and half of congress is derelict in their duty to impeach him for flagrantly breaking the laws of the nation.
- ttayh@lemmy.zipEnglish9 hours
Operation condor started in the 70s… Pre-operation condor in the 60s under JFK
All your heroes are monsters, and that says more about you than them
- HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish5 hours
im sorry. where did I list my heroes in this conversation? Yeah us was involved with that along with many other countries. again not just a us thing. europe, russia, asia, south america have all had things like you try to pretend is just the us. now I did address the uniquely us things but much improvement post ww2 came out of the us response to the depression. Anyway the point is what happening under trump is different. is worse. and is not business as usual as folks like you want to make it out. I honestly just assume its right wing shillery to normalize what they do but maybe you legit think this way.
- ttayh@lemmy.zipEnglish2 hours
You tried to wave away condor (and pretty much all of the US’ evils) to post Reagan. My point was that you were either ignorant or lying
- Gregers@lemmy.worldEnglish1 day
Obviously nothing comes close to what is happening in the US right now, and I do hope it’s not to late to turn things around.
- BrainInABox@lemmy.mlEnglish17 hours
Obviously nothing comes close to what is happening in the US right now
Slavery? Internment camps? Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia? Iraq? Torture? Genocide?
Americans are disgusting
we were a leader in treating people with respect for a few decades
When was that?
- 1 day
While we’re having issues with LGBTQ, we were a leader in treating people with respect for a few decades.
When??
- TIEPilot@lemmy.worldEnglish23 hours
It was Grape Flavo-Aid, if you’re gonna talk smack at least do it right…
- Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish22 hours
I’m not sure. Technically, yes, but there have been a number of EU treaties like that before that got all chopped by the courts, and the EU just went and found other lame excuses to try the same shit again.
So, theoretically, the EU has to rip that treaty to shreds, and have no real chance to get another attempt because all legal pathways have now been burned.
- Melusine@tarte.nuage-libre.frFrançais1 day
With the CLOUD, FISA and PATRIOCT acts, any privacy was already inexistant on USA soil, so at least if the commission can pull its head out of its ass, it coald be better.
