It’s about having rights, and exercising them. If companies find that difficult to work with then they’re not even hitting the minimum baseline.

> It’s a very European concept, that making life difficult is a worthy pursuit

This is an incredibly bold statement, and something I really cannot relate to having lived in Europe for over a decade.

It comes across as more of a knee-jerk reaction from someone who believes oversight or accountability of any kind is by definition a needless burden.

You think standing in for people's rights against the profit interests of transnational corporations means "making life difficult"? Whose life exactly? That of the CEO of Microsoft?

it is a very American concept, that company interests should be placed above human interests and rights.

When an entity becomes almost a monopoly, surely the rules about some behaviours should be stronger

> It’s a very European concept, that making life difficult is a worthy pursuit.

It's really hard to understand concepts when you're internationally masking and misleading yourself.

Obviously no one things "making life difficult is a worthy pursuit", but, doing the right thing sometimes is worth a bit of the difficulties it introduces, this is why you see moves like this.

You don't pay them anything but you are the product, genius !

making life difficult for _people i don't like_ is a worthy pursuit

You force yourself onto my life (because, for various reasons, most of the career listings are there for example) and then you attempt to make it miserable too, by using and abusing every FOMO tool in the box ?

You bet your ass I'm going to make your life difficult. If you want it to stop, you're the one with the ball on your side of the court, you know exactly what to do.

It's a very American concept, to believe you can just ignore systems and networks. The guy shitting in your yard every day doesn't go away just because you're not looking at him do it.

Making the lives of those that wish to exploit us and monetize our relationships on their enshittified platforms is not the same as making everyone's life difficult.

Correction, we hate making money at the expense of other peoples rights and liberties. It's kind of frustrating to have to explain that to US folks over and over again... all that "freedom" in their things is apparently very decorative.

"In Ireland, people have an interesting attitude toward success—they look down on it. In America, you look at the mansion on the hill and think, 'One day that will be me.' In Ireland, people say, 'One day, I'm going to get that bastard!'"