Nah. Demanding the ISPs to block traffic to Google domains would be quite effective.

This isn’t like the great firewall of chine where you want to prevent absolutely all traffic. If you make it inconvenient to use, because CSS breaks or a js library doesn’t load or images breaslk, its already a huge step into pushing it out of the market.

Enterprise market would be much harder, a loooot of EU companies rely on Google’s services, platforms and apps, and migrating away would take a lot of time and money.

You’re appealing to authority instead of presenting real arguments.

Don’t worry about it

Relevant username.

China is the most capitalist country on the planet. The only thing they openly worship is money.

I disagree. What matters is power, and money does grant a lot of it, but in China especially this isn’t as direct as it is in the US for example because of party politics.

Party officials made their fortune first and were then forced to join the party, the party doesn’t make their fortune.

That’s a very broad assumption, and in some cases is true, some it is not. China has over 1 000 billionaires, over 100 of them are in the parliament, so it’s a bit of a chicken and egg thing, they go hand in hand because of the power thing.

Please spend some time there and we talk afterwards, if you stick to your opinion.

Yeah walking the streets of Beijing will give me ample opportunity to meet & greet Chinese billionaires and CCCP top brass.

Ahahah the eagle with the cat, that’s hilarious

You’re forgetting all the companies that hold on to your data forever. Yeah I bought a $4 shenanigan 5 years ago, do you really need to keep my full name, phone, email, CC details, tax number and address, stored plainly in some poorly protected, internet accessible DB?

Party official billionaires are much better than sketchy “self made” billionaires.

Party officials owe their fortune and allegiance to the party, and we’ve seen some high profile cases of billionaires being brought to their heels very quickly.

Capitalist billionaires are the end result of a selection process that chooses the most self serving, greedy, ruthless bastards.

I’ll take #1. Fight me.

This is kinda of my experience. The type of people that I see getting mistreated are the “I am le touriste, entertain me!” kind.

Americans especially tend to fall into this category a lot, they tend to be loud, brash and self centered, especially towards staff.

Look here you pot of lard, you bought a 2€ croissant, not my fucking soul. You want something, ask nicely and I will gladly help you. Act like you own me, I’m gonna piss on your food.

I’m not sure that’s why.

My two cents: I got really annoyed with windows after a random update pushing stuff I don’t want or need, so I spun up Ubuntu. I’ve used a lot in the past, but stopped using it because of anti-cheat in some games, got tired of switching whenever I wanted to play.

Coming back, I find out about snaps. Not a good start, but I found instructions to revert to the good old apt packages I wanted. But then I spent way too long trying to coax the taskbar/system/clock to appear where I wanted them to, plus having things working well in my multi monitor setup, and at some point I just went back to Windows.

I couldn’t care less about distro squabbles, but I do care greatly about usability and polish, and it seems like we’re taking steps back here.