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Meta will face daily fines of €89,500 if it doesn’t comply with the order.

Bet they can write it off as expenses.

Where I live it’s much more complete than google maps, especially in the countryside.

They say that every year.

Again, I complain about due process, not about the decision itself.

Knowing the guy it’s entirely possible that he’s lying, but he claimed that he tried seven different british banks and was denied each time.

I haven’t found a definitive denial or confirmation of the story, except a few articles where the journalists contacted uk banks and received a “no comment”.

I don’t dismiss it, since it happens among other occurrences of banking institutions trying to act like a judicial power on their own. Namely the wikileaks donations block, and the surrealistic paypal ‘disinformation fee’.

If he genuinely took money from the russian state, or purposedly tanked the pound sterling in order to short it on the forex market (I didn’t make that one up), it stands firmly in the realm of criminal behaviour.

So by all means, investigate, jail him, fine him, cut him into pieces and shoot them into the sun for all I care.

But I think banks do this kind of stuff to pretend that they autoregulate, and avoid genuine government oversight.

Allowing this to happen, even to the most unlikeable person in Britain, sets a precedent which makes me uneasy.

Then again I might just be bullshit, what do I know, I couldn’t find the info.

No, they’re a necessary part of modern life and they should not be able to arbitrarily refuse service. This should be done under government supervision.
The same way you are entitled to health care, groceries or public transportation.

And I complained the same way when Mastercard and Visa blocked payment to wikileaks.
It’s about the principle of the thing, it has nothing to do with the person victim of the process.

Farage’s worse than dirt.
But you’d have to be completely insane to see this as a good thing.
Banks should not hold that much power, this is effectively a privately owned social credit system.

Depends what you mean by security.
If you mean privacy, no such thing exists. All browsers snitch on you, and trying to actually have a private life will land you in jail soon enough.
If you want to do online banking, any of the big three will do if updated regularly.
I’d choose firefox as a symbolic protest against tech oligarchy.

I use it from time to time. The tech is getting better.
But it’s very hard to find anything interesting on it.
They REALLY need to focus on implementing content filter and discovery tools.
Right now it’s a lot noise and reposted videos. The search function doesn’t work at all.

I think the platform could be viable with a decent, verbatim search function; a tag-based browsing system, and the ability to visualize the federated instances and browse any of them as local.

It’s still possible to find interesting videos by browsing an instance focused on a specific interested as local.