Post #4135526
2026-07-27 10:57 UTC
The Serenity Prayer doesn't stop with "things you can't change." Next is "courage to change the things I can." The EU has no control over Google's conduct, but it has *total* control over its *own* conduct.
Specifically, the EU could get rid of the laws that ban European companies from modifying US tech exports. The EU adopted the Copyright Directive in 2001. Article 6 of the EUCD makes it a crime to reverse-engineer and modify a device without the manufacturer's permission.
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-07-27 10:57
This law was adopted under pressure from the US Trade Representative, who threatened the EU with tariffs on its exports unless it adopted an "anticircumvention rule" that banned EU technologists from making products that let Europeans prevent US tech companies from stealing their money and data": https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition 16/