The #EU has too little awareness of the Brussels effect

netzpolitik.org: Let’s take closer look at your plans for the Global Majority House. At first glance, one might say that Pakistan is far away from Europe. How does EU regulation like the #DigitalService Act affect people in Global Majority countries?

Nighat Dad: The EU needs to recognise that its regulations have global ripple effects. Take the GDPR, for instance. It has become the global gold standard for #dataprotection and

#YippitySkippity...!

#BT have #StoppedTrying to #Upsell #IT's "new" #VoIP as a #DigitalService and have #FinallyConfirmed the #Discontinuation of #MyLandLineService...

The #SalesAgent got a #LittleBitHufty and #Suggested that we #MightNotUnderstand until I #PatientlyExplained that #MyDoctorate is in #Engineering, while "she/they/them" were #TryingToSell a #Service we #NoLonger "need"...

"They/them" were #QuiteCrestfallen when I also #PatientlyExplaing #ExactlyHowMuch #Money we weren't going to be #Paying over the #NextFiveYears... #IT runs into #Thousands and #Thousands of #PoundsSterling... Though #IT also #Sounds a #LotMore in #Pesetas or #Lira or #Yen...

#TheBFF, #MyLittleBigBuddy, #CaptainRedBeanBear and I also #StillPossess #ZeroDodgyCoins... #Unlike #SpaceKarenX...

#ChaChing...!

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