That really is the craziest part. Doesn’t matter much if we change everything if the underlying stores and OS still is not sovereign…
The fact that I cannot do banking or log into government sites without a phone with a foreign controlled OS and app store still baffles me…
I kinda agree, techy people will get around it and non-techy people do not install and use third party stores in the first place (does Samsung store count? They probably get a pass I assume). But it is still shitty and offensive and establishes a monopoly that the EU will have a problem with…
I have been thinking non the less to switch to other more open mobile os. I have tried a few, but my current phone is not well supported. When I upgrade in the future I will go for a more open platform.
I think if Google does this they kinda force devs in non-United Statean countries to develop their apps for other platforms too. If European government and banking apps can only be downloaded from United Statean app stores and the OS on United Statean Android phones are locked to only that store, they might have a problem with that…
Hopefully European government and banking apps become available on open source platforms like F-droid.
I am sorry I didn’t realize this was an echo chamber where you can only voice validating and approving opinions.
I mainly think banning SM is better than trying age verification or some other way to exclude children. If it is 99% toxic trash then it should just be banned.
Next in line is 99% of all porn, which is also toxic trash. If one applies the same logic as previously, then it should be banned too.
Unregulated use of morphine (heroine) is bad, thus we ban it.
It is interesting though how strongly you react to porn specifically getting banned. Maybe you should reflect on that.
Don’t worry, neither porn or social media will ever get banned :) but the fact that you react so negatively to it should perhaps make you reflect upon your own habits, the way people using social media should reflect upon theirs.
I have been pro banning all for-profit social media for years. I can live without Reddit. Especially now with Lemmy and fediverse. I can even live with no social media whatsoever. We should probably ban all porn too. It is just as brain rotting as social media. I say this as someone who does watch porn. I can live without it if society gets better from banning it.
What if it was the other way around? They had multiple partners so you had to spend less time keeping them happy? Seems like a win win, you have to spend less at the chores of the relationship and they gets to be more happy, content and taken care of!