Exactly, but they do.

The NYPD have offices in Israel.

It wouldnt finish a lyric for me yesterday because it was copyrighted. I sid it was public domain and it said “You are absolutely right, given its release date it is under copyright protection”

Wtf

So you repkied to me qualifying that it is an effective duopoly by saying that there are other companies which is what is implied in what I said?

Who is dense when you can’t understand the practicalities of real life and how business interact with our lives. You can get a linux phone, which is probably below .5% of market share and then sandbox android to use these apps…which is in itself necessitating the use of a google product.

I could walk into the bank also or not talk to people but effectively there are two manufacturers with a duopoly on consumer mobile communications enviromments.

“There are ways” is some cop out bullshit.

Sold my Audi when they started this, VWs are already overpriced basic shits.

Give me asian cars.

Ok show me a phone that is readily available that has the ability to log into banking apps etc.

The piece on using the tech is a bit much. We cannot get by without a smartphone in modern life and they essentially do not exist outside of apple and google.

Email your MEPs, push back on the narrative that it protects children. IF it even did protect children it would be at the cost of any semblamce of privacy. Politicians are also exempt despite a pedo politician leading a major world power right now.

I got an immediate response explaining their stance is based almost entirely around the disemination of csam.

It is a noble goal but akin to ending traffic deaths by mandating getting and checking the coast is clear every 10 meters.