Limiting that is absolutely malicious compliance.

But it is compliance. That is what Apple will tell the EU. "We complied with your ruling which made no mention of who can work on this."

If you don't spell out the conditions you can't complain when you don't like the results.

It's one thing to say you're scraping the messages. It is quite another to admit you're scraping people's data, particularly data which could possibly have PII or other restrictive issues, not to mention the usual confidential information.

I'm presuming common sense or legal considerations doesn't enter into business decisions any longer.

so Apple openly flouting the rules is understandable.

They are not flouting the rules, they are following them. If third-party browsers are required to be allowed in the EU but not elsewhere, there isn't a need for someone in the U.S. develop them. Only someone in the EU.

I can guarantee if you look at the EU ruling there is nothing in there that says Apple has to allow anyone access to create/maintain these browsers. The ruling only says Apple must allow alternative browsers, not how it is implemented. Therefore, it is up to Apple how they want to comply with the EU ruling, and here it is.

Apparently not a single company bothered to introduce themselves to these "employees", nor bothered to even speak with them via video. Just another side effect of WFH.

All the companies who were too lazy to do the bare minimum should be named so we know who not to do business with. If they were too lazy to check in on their "employees", what other shit job are they doing?

Treason is only applicable when levying war against the U.S. Since we are not at war with NK, treason is not applicable.

It was meant to mirror advertising guidelines for airline tickets

Considering airlines are suing the administration for having to disclose all their add-on fees becasue, and I quote, it would confuse customers, end quote, we'll see how far this gets.

One can only imagine the uproar from TicketMaster at having to disclose all its usuriuos fees to make a sale. Think of all the mayhem which would ensue if a grocer had to list every single item and its cost on a bill it gives to you. It boggles the mind how this proposed law can be done.

I use my credit card for so little it would be a true miracle if any advertiser wanted to contact me.

Whenever I hear the average credit card debt is X, I have to think there's at least one person out there who has double that amount to make up for my zero balance.

They just want things they don't like banned, and things they do like protected. Fuck your free speech.

Yup. Witness the fiasco with Twitter. Musk recently won a case in Australia to leave up the video of the minister being stabbed. Musk wanted to show the world how bad "those" people are so he argued on "free speech" principles.

Which is funny because he regularly takes down comments, pictures, and videos of things which go against his far right proclivities. He's even rolled over when certain governments have demanded he censor posts, such as happened in Turkey where posts by opposition candidates were banned from the site. When called out for his hypocrisy about "free speech" he argued it was either comply with the government order or have the entire site banned in Turkey.

So, to sum up, take down one specific video as requested by the government is an assault on "free speech", take down multiple postings as requested by the government is doing what they said or else.

It's not Trump Jr. who was hired as an executive for an oil company and was paid MORE than an Exxon board member for a country his daddy just overthrew. That was Hunter and Ukraine.

Which didn't happen.

I get it, Trump is a worthless human being. But Biden was way worse even when he had a functioning brain.

Celebrating dictators certainly falls under a worthless human being, but praising a fictional character who ate other people definitely falls under a non-functioning brain.

Tell use you don't know what censorship means without telling us you don't know what censorship means.

I thought if you want to launder money, you find a guy named Danny and "invest" in his laser tag business.

No, you need to find a guy named Donny and "invest" in his golf course(s).