• 9point6@lemmy.world
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    Why is it basically only the EU that seems to have an interest in preventing shitty business practices.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      Because the US is controlled by corporations

      Asia for the most part doesn’t care

      Australia is run by right wing nut jobs

      New Zealand is quiet so they probably do do something like this but we haven’t heard about it.

      Japan is Japan. Civil rights isn’t really a thing.

      And China and Russia love invasion of privacy it’s basically the entire basis of their countries.

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        Well actshually… Australia used to be run by right-wing nutjobs. The current mob in power are centrist nut jobs.

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          The power behind the throne in Australia is still right wing nut jobs and corporations

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            I feel like Australia and New Zealand is kind of like England and Scotland in that sense.

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          I’m really curious (as I’m not living there) what the difference is. Is it just their religious tendencies? Or is it their feelings towards the nebulous “other” that defines them?

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            In Australia there are two major political parties, Labor and Liberals.

            Liberals does not mean what it does in the US, they are the right wing party, who are in a coalition with the Nationals party which is even further right wing.

            Labor is now centre-right as they kept running on centre-left policies and losing.

            The defining difference between the parties on the domestic front are that Labor supports and Liberals oppose

            1. Social safety nets

            2. Universal medical care

            3. Taxation of corporations

            On a foreign policy front they parties are broadly aligned however their stance on how to deal (interact) with China is vastly different, where Labor engages the Liberals attack China endlessly which resulted in a trade war which we’re still feeling the effects of.

            This is a very shallow examination of Australia’s political landscape but I’m not a political commentator.

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          I am generally curious what you mean by centrist nut jobs? The whole point of the centre is to be somewhere in the middle and therefore the best of both worlds that everyone has something in common with as far as I’m concerned

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            There is no “best of both worlds” when one side wants you to be a fucking slave. Wake up, dummy.

              • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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                “Best of both worlds” doesn’t literally mean expressing everything on a numeric scale and averaging it out.

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                  No, we know.

                  What’s the best that should we take from the far right?

                  It’s an ideological desert over there once you look past the race supremacy, inevitable oligarchy and people dying if they don’t spend enough of their time struggling to survive. It’s literally just psychopathic power grabbing when you really distill it down.

                  If any of that sounds good to you, I’m not interested in the world you want.

                  Support for centrism is either complete political ignorance, or looking at that desert and thinking “I think we need some of that shit over here”

                  • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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                    Nothing. And neither should we take anything from the far left. It’s the moderates that have good ideas.

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        I would like to point the RWNJs finally got voted out in Oz last year (federal and most states). Of course Murdoch and co. are working hard to reverse that, but semi sane leadership is in place for at least a year or two more.

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        As with most things in the US, California has similar laws to the gdpr (though admittedly not as powerful), so a lot of websites are starting to change a bit in the US because of california.

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        China and Russia are dictatorships meaning they do whatever the fucknthey like and if you don’t like it you might become suicidal.

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      Because they listen to people rather than ignore them and then make policy based on how much money they can make from the deal.

      This shows me the EU is actually more democratic then the US is.

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      It’s much harder to pay off the lawmakers to keep the status quo when the economic area is controlled by dozens of individual governments.

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        This is actually a particularly important point. The nature of the EU is laden with bureaucracy. Combined with the wide range of cultures, and the rotation of staff, it makes bribing enough people to get your way difficult. You end up needing people in multiple countries to deal with it, and the rotations make long term deals difficult.

        The end result is that bribing EU bureaucracy is like trying to stop a river with just hands. It’s far less effective, letting the EU be a lot more effective (if slow).

        There’s a reason so many big business interests want to break up the EU.

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      Brazil also has a similar law called LGPD, I think it was made based on European GDPR

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        Actually, and I’m quite proud of this, the LGPD was already being discussed before the EU’s GDPR. It may not look like it, but Brazil is at the forefront of digital protection and privacy.

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      Yah, I just get Google to block these sites from ever being recommended again.