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Conversely, this and EU Chat Control are precisely why the powers that be will ensure it will happen.

The importance of FOSS mobile OSes is greater than ever now.

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Still waiting to see chatcontrol happen. Maybe I’m naive, but I don’t believe it will happen.

As an EU citizen, I never doubt the ability for the EU to do the wrong thing...

The current European Commision president: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/zensursula

The previous president, Juncker, was the premier who made Luxembourg a taxhaven. Nowadays buying from Amazon in Europe you still get a purchase receipt from Amazon Luxembourg...

I still think we’re better off with the EU than without. Imagine trumps tariff war without the EU. He would have crushed every country individually… The deal is not great but it would have been worse.

I just don’t see how they will enforce it. Will they force telegram and signal to exit the EU app stores? The won’t offer a different app in the EU.

It's better than the shitshow that people like Farage, LePen, Orban, maybe Miloni too, want; but it's still far from great, competent governance...

if we're talking about the EU, for a provider the size of Google, not allowing third party application installs is illegal in the EU under the Digital Markets Act

This doesn't necessarily mean they can't introduce developer verification process. (Meaning only Google verified and approved developers would be able to distribute APKs)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45411426

It's really quite worrying how all these things (age verification, chat control, side-loading prevention, etc.) seem to be coming to bear in tandem across many countries.

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