Bad strawman, worse reasoning. Obviously if the benefits of the regulation outweigh the cost then it's worth it.
In this case the vast majority of the benefit accrues to non-germans (because the German population is small and few Germans profit from copyrighted music) but the loss will accrue only to Germans (since they can't use Suno).
> The conservative CDU is responsible for the decommissioning of nuclear plants
This is a lie.
The atomaustieg was decided by the SPD+Green coalition in 1998 as a condition for the Green joining Schroeders coalition.
The CDU actually reversed course just before Fukushima but unfortunately Merkel then undid that to try to win voters away from the greens by joining the fearmongering post-fukushima.
> the Greens extended the lifetime of the remaining plants
By 3 months, under enormous pressure from all sides during the worst energy crisis in postwar german history when they could have reversed course or extended them longer. You don't get much credit for this.
This was inarguably one of the greatest political mistakes of the 21st century so far and the blame is squarely on the Green party and their voters. The real propaganda is you trying to deflect it into the CDU.
Yes, so let's think long term. How do we keep it rolling? Perhaps we will need to continue to advance our technology, especially moving industries to space where there is no ecosphere.
1. That's not true.
2. It's not "at will" if you actually read the article you're commenting under you'd see it is about them _applying for a license_ to do something.
Taken literally you are technically correct, but...
1. Space is big, but LEO is not that big and if a single company clutters it enough, other organisations might start bumping into issues like 'if i don't get sign off from starlink corp, i might hit one of their satelites on the way up and my insurance wont cover that so I cant afford to launch given the risks of being sued by elon'.
2. Applying for a licence in this context, mostly means greasing the right palms (preferably the pudgy bruised ones).
It introduces no issues for space travel. And what exactly do you want to happen here? LEO to stay empty because no one else is able to fill it and for spacex to not to try to expand because the regulatory process isn't perfect according to your standards?
> Just because things have been horrific up to this point, does not mean that we should want them to continue to be horrific
Wrong. Things stopped being horrific precisely because of the overwhelming amount of weaponry produced by capitalist enterprises on behalf of democratic nations. Continuing the process prevents the horrors from returning.
> Advocating for change against the violent factions of the world, is indeed, a good thing to do.
Also wrong. Any "violent faction" that would listen to you is de facto a good faction, so you are either wasting your time or undermining exactly the factions you should be empowering.
I suspect that this is going to fall into the "nothing ever happens" bucket.
What they're implying is that it is illegal for US companies to comply with EU law.
This is significantly different than the EU enforcing the GDPR extraterritorially since that's basically just an increased cost of doing business in Europe and is apparently worth it.
But if the US companies have to choose between complying with US extraterritorial law or EU extraterritorial law they're going to have to choose the US, for obvious reasons.
It doesn't seem to me that convenient legal subsidiary structures or data physicality setups are gonna work here.
The effect of US companies withdrawing cloud services would be devastating to the EU. Imagine if you could no longer access your gmail or outlook account, your apple or google photos disappear , whatsapp shuts down, all you companies documents are no longer accessible on Office365 or G drive.
The results would be indistinguishable from a massive cyber attack and would take decades to recover from.
There's just no way the EU would inflict a wound of this magnitude on itself.
Indeed. The EU will search for a way to keep allowing citizen data on American intelligence agencies, because there simply is no alternative politically affordable. It would take American SWAT teams regularly raiding the streets of Belgium and Paris, in plain daylight, and equivocally arresting French/Belgian cafe owners for having abortions (and thus violating Mississippi state laws), for the EU to do the right thing.
> The results would be indistinguishable from a massive cyber attack and would take decades to recover from.
It would be painful, yes, but it wouldn't "take decades to recover from", not even years. These services, technically, aren't so difficult to recreate, if you have a big enough market.
Very naive. The services are potentially replaceable, the data is not.
That's not even considering the political backlash. How do you explain to your population that their digital lives have been permanently deleted because of a trans-national legal spat they don't care about?
In this case the vast majority of the benefit accrues to non-germans (because the German population is small and few Germans profit from copyrighted music) but the loss will accrue only to Germans (since they can't use Suno).