nixCraft 🐧Nov 16, 2023
Europe: We are banning egress fees.
Google: πŸ₯Έ
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This is something a tiny cloud provider CEO probably do to avoid EU rules. But Google is so cheeky πŸ˜‚ it is unbelievable
Show threadpopbonesNov 16, 2023
@nixCraft Does this mean the EU rules only applies to English?
Show threadMax Lee Nov 16, 2023
@popbones
No, all EU legislation is written in all official languages of its member states (+ English) and all official announcements need to be at least in English, French and German iirc.
(Beyond that that's not how laws work anyways. A judge decides if it matches the meaning of the law, not the exact wording. Laws aren't programming languages after all.)
Show threadDima Pasechnik πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ πŸ‡³πŸ‡±Nov 16, 2023

@the_moep @popbones Googl somehow thinks that US holy-constitution-worshipping literalist law works well in EU. Good luck to them. Even though, if the US right to own and carry around AR-15 stems from "well-armed militia" thing in the holy text...

By the way, English is an official language in the Republic of Ireland, thus automatically an EU language.

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@dimpase @the_moep @popbones google quite literally doesn't think anything as it's group of different people, and some of those people google employ are one of the best lawyers (in Europe as well), so big doubt they do this without thinking it through.
Nov 16, 2023 at 4:14pmTusky
Show threadDima Pasechnik πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ πŸ‡³πŸ‡±Nov 16, 2023
@yiin @the_moep @popbones Google is paying a 4+ billion Euro fine to the EU at the moment, for abusing its search monopoly. No matter how good Google lawyers are, they won't help here, either.
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@dimpase @the_moep @popbones Just to be clear, I'm not defending Google, the original comment made it sound like it's some random delusional manager taking law related decisions into to his hands (although, let's be real, that wouldn't be surprising giving the culture in Google πŸ‘€)