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The stick is very, very simple. Ban the collection, use and resale of cross-site behavioral tracking for advertising purposes. GDPR has teeth, if we just enforce it.

That one change, and Meta, TikTok and Google lose all their traffic leverage. Of course that's precisely why lobbyists want to ensure politicians think it is impossible to enforce.

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So, likely confirming many sceptics' view of the Online Safety Act, Ofcom has concluded that in its first nine months it has had no discernible positive impact on the flow of inappropriate & dangerous material reaching children via social media. As many argued at the time (and a Show more

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This wasn't the first illegal Google project in Finland, they've broken preservation laws at their existing data center site as well. It's an intentional bet that sanctions will be minimal, and environmental assessments come back easier for a site which no longer has any environmental values to protect.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/oct/22/finland-google-felling-trees-datacentre

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Finland sends 10 diesel train engines to Ukraine. It's not much, but Finnish trains are the same imperial russian rail gauge as Ukrainian, so they will immediately relieve problem of destroyed engines.
https://yle.fi/a/74-20252910

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Elon says it wasn't him. White House staff says it wasn't the orange guy. No one owns up to shutting Starlink for Ukraine. We all have our guesses who it was, I'm sure. Traitors, the lot of them.
https://kyivindependent.com/no-ones-owning-up-to-crippling-ukraines-military-starlink/

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