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the louder someone tells me in advance they don't care, the more they care about something going on here, and in your case its to talk about the EU and the UK. This was an article about the UK, if you didn't care you didn't need to post here at all, just as people from the US don't need to post to say "I'm from the US, why do I need to care about EU laws?" you don't, but you also don't say anything intelligent about it by saying you live somewhere else.

Posting to say you live somewhere else and don't care about the article doesn't contribute to any intelligent conversation, and usually means you do care about something involved, strongly, but aren't willing to say so.

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But it does. Laws like this tend to spill over to other countrys, unless the politicians in question have to tiptoe away from the mess they created. So one way to fight this law is to make clear the rest of the world is not going to play along.

So as a person, I of course do care. The UK used to be fairly good concerning human rights, privacy, cooperation, ... This represents another step back. So the best thing to do is ignore this insanity as good as possible.

the rest of the world is not a monolith, and nobody speaks for the rest of the world in aggregate, so 'making it clear' doesn't matter. They left the EU so they could control their own laws, I don't think someone from the EU being childish about "I live in the EU, I don't care" about UK law makes a persuasive statement about politics.

So as the UK left the EU, they are now a small country in the computer world. I'll ignore its laws

Laws like this tend to spill over to other countrys, unless the politicians in question have to tiptoe away from the mess

Pick a lane.

These are different things.

You can ignore its laws by blocking users, and clearly saying you won't comply with such stupid laws.

Being concerned that this can spread to other countries is a big reason why you have to be clear about not playing along.

Here's something novel, then: I've lived all over the world, but I wouldn't step foot in post-Brexit, xenophobic Britain if you paid me. I'm reading this gleefully thinking of ways to flout whatever implementation is settled upon, while homegrown British companies rot. I am, in fact, rooting for your economy to utterly collapse.

As I said, its not that you don't care, its that you care very very strongly, but wanted to pretend you didn't care, which was why you posted to say 'but I don't live in the UK' as if it was relevant to anyone but you.

You're responding to two different people as if they were the same person.

didn't notice, but again, same thing with both of them. "Here are some laws in the UK" - they respond with "let me tell you about the UK, I don't care about it but here are the reasons why I care..."

In perception polls on xenophobia across Europe, UK scores very well. Here is a report from the EU from 2019:

https://fra.europa.eu/sites/default/files/fra_uploads/fra-20...

Out of interest, have you seen the list of potential future PMs. I would say it is far more diverse and less xenophobic than most European countries.

But yeah believe what makes you happy. Just don't let the hate get to you to much.

At least one of whom has stated that the bill in question would not be taken forward under her leadership.

Which of the candidates aren't British?

AS an australian, i am sick to death of dealing with the legacy of the UK and wish nothing more then this to come true. Unfortunately, the UK is the worlds offshore banker, makers of the tax haven scam. Thats how they maintain their power post colonialism.

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