Free softy and open source are not one and the same. Letâ€(TM)s get rid of OSS, there still will be free software practitioners.

The analogy doesnâ€(TM)t really hold. IETF is there to promote cooperation between companies, so that their products can communicate. The interest of the companies is the same as the publicâ€(TM)s one in the field of activities of IETF.
Perhaps public research should be founded by taxes, and not be disguised private research…

« In fact, it likely will be on parity with the dollar »
good objective : one btc = one usd

And Apple want all programs to be provided through their application store

Practicaly, no. EU is not as strong as US in term of extraterritoriality power. But the day Clearview try to do business with a company within european juridiction, they can clearly be found violating GDPR, and as such, subject to fine equal to 1 to 2 percent of gross worlwide turnover, for a first time violation.

No matter where they are located, they must respect GDPR as soon as they use personal data of EU residents and citizens. An US citizen living in EU is entitled to GDPR protections. And they have no right to manipulate personal data of EU residents and citizens without prior agreement from the data subjects (the peoples whose personal identifiable information is processed).

Yeh. Thatâ€(TM)s one of the many reasons why nobody serious is considering using bitcoin as a currency.
This made the news because it was quite consequent, and on Christmas Day, but it happens and is quietly corrected many times a year, in different banks worldwide. Irrevocability means uncorrectability, and is only ok for thoughts experiments, not for real life.

No I havenâ€(TM)t.

And from what I deduce, Iâ€(TM)m not sure I want to…

In 2021-08-14, 14 is the day part, so the example is right

From the website of the plaintif :
L'UFC-Que Choisir entend continuer ce combat pour offrir aux consommateurs davantage de droits sur les contenus qu'ils peuvent acheter, quel que soit le support. Notre association compte faire respecter cette decision et l'elargir a d'autres plateformes.

Translation :
UFC-QUE Choisir (the consumer organization at the origin of the trial) wish to continue the combat to offer to consumers more rights on the contents they can buy, no matter the support. Our association will work on the respect of this decision, and on elarging it to other platforms.

Now, Bruce Willis needs just to become an european citizen (and to legally transfer his music collection from US to Europe :-) )

as a side note, I recently bought a pair of polarized sunglasses and was surprised discovering it obscure my Samsung smartphone OLED screen (super AMOLED on 2017 A5). I have no idea why Samsung put a polarizing filter on an OLED screen, but there is it.
So, no cloacking of OLED display seems not an absolute for me.

I'm not so sure you can make such a statement.
In fact, I know for sure it is false as expressed.
If you are an european company with european employes or visitor (who are often EU citizens) and you provide them with internet access, and you warn them that you can intercept their trafic, MITM can be acceptable.
ANSSI (Agence Nationale pour la Securite des Systemes d'Informations, french governemental agency for IT security) even publish a guide explaining how to install your MITM proxy (https://www.ssi.gouv.fr/guide/recommandations-de-securite-concernant-lanalyse-des-flux-https/)

" I call it self-created because this is something the 99% can solve on their own. They don't have to spend as much of their income on things which quickly or immediately lose value."
like food and rent...

It could be a propaganda operation, to encourage users from others country to migrate to a compromised system.
Or not.
But if you have enough paranoia to need some system like that, there is no limit to your untrust.

Don't forget that all Google "products" are just experiments, valid only as long as they find benefit in them.