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op7 2 days ago

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amarcheschi 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

The funny answer would be "god I wish so".

A more serious answer is, monopolies in the long run are detrimental both for the economy and the general public as well. A company becoming so important that for an issue like this it could threaten to make phones bricks is already a bad signal, but they're not gonna do that cause they like those sweet pesky profits in Brazil and in the eu as well

You think that apple can do whatever it wants on its platform because its their ip? Well then, I don't see why the eu and Brazil can't do whatever they want (perhaps this brings out how dumb the my platform my rules argument is)

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dismalaf 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Foreign despots like the EU? Apple might be able to tell Brazil where to go but the EU is the world's second largest economy.

	▲	matheusmoreira 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Apple might be able to tell Brazil where to go Doubt. Corporations who have folded before Brazil and its officials include Telegram, Meta, Google, and most recently Twitter. In fact the supreme court judges are debating regulation of social media literally right now. Yes, the judges legislate in this country. Last time Google tried to campaign against that by putting a link on their search page, they slapped it with a totally arbitrary hourly fine for the grave crime of "abusing their economic position". The fines kept coming until the link was gone. Just today I saw news about this. One of those judges was trying to calm down a Meta lawyer by reassuring him it was not an inquisition, only for the judge who shut down X to finish his sentence by saying "yet". It's not gonna stop, they're gonna steal millions from the american economy unless they call their White House contacts and get Trump to sanction this place.

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2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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