[blocked_again]

I think this kind of affirms the general opinion that Germany and many traditionally powerful European countries is doing poorly when it comes to modern tech. What went wrong with Germany and Europe? They used to be the front runners in tech once upon a time.

[johannes1234321]

Maybe it's just, that the European law makers understand the risk of being are to transfer sensitive persona data into other legislations, and that a local registered company doesn't mean there are technical bounds.

[lizardactivist]

"European countries doing poorly when it comes to modern tech" has never been an opinion.

You're confused, and your petty vindictiveness is unmotivated. The EU as a space of commerce is not yours to do with as you wish. You have to follow rules and regulations just like our own companies have to. And if your country had not been engaging in espionage and sabotage then there would never have been a need for these "unfair" and "underhanded tactics".

[sershe]

> You have to follow rules and regulations just like our own companies have to

Which companies? Seriously though. Is there a reason the biggest EU software companies are the likes of SAP and Capgemini, or niche players like Spotify?

I mean, I'm not talking about the USA or China, even Russia has a more impressive tech sector.

Could it have something to do with various regulations?

[TheLoafOfBread]

LOL, they never were. Germans are conservative. Try to pay by card in a shop/restaurant outside bigger German city. Either not possible, cash only, or you can use some local EC card, which only Germans are using. Rest of EU is using Visa / Master card.

[throwaway4good]

The surveillance capitalism model is a non-starter in the EU.

[simion314]

But when is about TikTok I see most americans have completely different values, no sorry americans are consistent, only US citizens deserve rights, the rest can be spied on, tortured,killed etc. Give EU citizens same privacy rights and there so no need to start an economic war because some NSA fat and lazy agent does not want to prepare a file to request a warrant. If you are at it, maybe is tiem to let US citizens that killed people(like in car crashes abroad) to get their fair trial and punishment too.

We have rights too, you are not more special and deserve more basic human rights because citizenship.

[dang]

Please don't take HN threads into flamewar, let alone nationalistic flamewar. It's exactly what we don't want here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: you've been breaking the site guidelines in other threads too. We ban accounts that do that, so please stop.

[blocked_again]

You do know that nobody in US is forcing you to use this site or any other US companies for that matter. You are doing it with your own free fill.

Also, remember the time when Germany decided to go after their own people? How does laws like this help when it comes to situations like that?