It definitely should be, but at some point in time, very intelligent people though that this was a Good Thing:

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Yep same, getting smacked is how I know they also love me but showing it in more conventional ways is completely impossible for them

Yeah, China has almost double the population of the US and EU combined.

That’s where “developing nations” come in - India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Brasil, Nigeria… AFAIK these are mostly western-aligned when it comes to tech platforms, but that could be up for grabs.

They must have hired some former Nvidia marketing guys.

I’m not too sure they’d be such a great fit for the EU, culturally and socially. That sounds like we’d be taking in a Trojan horse.

How do Canadian companies like tariffs? Just saying, it’s not impossible…

I’m.not saying Canada has to take the offer, just that it’s something that should be on the table for trump to chew on.

I’ve said this before, the EU should just invite Canada into the Union.

People have been known to cross the Florida Straight on makeshift rafts, I hear Cuba is very nice this time of year.

IP block it. Boom there goes eSNI and DNS.

Sure, it’s crude, but again: it doesn’t have to perfect, it just needs to create havoc with Google services to push away a regular user, who has no idea what DNS even is.

A better approach though is to fine Google, with a % of revenue increasing until compliance. They’ll very quickly be incentivised to comply or shutdown.

See, “I’m not gonna smack you across the face, but I totally could if I wanted to and you can’t do shit about it” might not be the best way to clear your reputation as a bully.

Nah. Demanding the ISPs to block traffic to Google domains would be quite effective.

This isn’t like the great firewall of chine where you want to prevent absolutely all traffic. If you make it inconvenient to use, because CSS breaks or a js library doesn’t load or images breaslk, its already a huge step into pushing it out of the market.

Enterprise market would be much harder, a loooot of EU companies rely on Google’s services, platforms and apps, and migrating away would take a lot of time and money.

You’re appealing to authority instead of presenting real arguments.

Don’t worry about it

Relevant username.

China is the most capitalist country on the planet. The only thing they openly worship is money.

I disagree. What matters is power, and money does grant a lot of it, but in China especially this isn’t as direct as it is in the US for example because of party politics.

Party officials made their fortune first and were then forced to join the party, the party doesn’t make their fortune.

That’s a very broad assumption, and in some cases is true, some it is not. China has over 1 000 billionaires, over 100 of them are in the parliament, so it’s a bit of a chicken and egg thing, they go hand in hand because of the power thing.

Please spend some time there and we talk afterwards, if you stick to your opinion.

Yeah walking the streets of Beijing will give me ample opportunity to meet & greet Chinese billionaires and CCCP top brass.

Ahahah the eagle with the cat, that’s hilarious

You’re forgetting all the companies that hold on to your data forever. Yeah I bought a $4 shenanigan 5 years ago, do you really need to keep my full name, phone, email, CC details, tax number and address, stored plainly in some poorly protected, internet accessible DB?

Party official billionaires are much better than sketchy “self made” billionaires.

Party officials owe their fortune and allegiance to the party, and we’ve seen some high profile cases of billionaires being brought to their heels very quickly.

Capitalist billionaires are the end result of a selection process that chooses the most self serving, greedy, ruthless bastards.

I’ll take #1. Fight me.

This is kinda of my experience. The type of people that I see getting mistreated are the “I am le touriste, entertain me!” kind.

Americans especially tend to fall into this category a lot, they tend to be loud, brash and self centered, especially towards staff.

Look here you pot of lard, you bought a 2€ croissant, not my fucking soul. You want something, ask nicely and I will gladly help you. Act like you own me, I’m gonna piss on your food.