The top one is taken from a website called vividmaps where it’s countries the USA has had some sort of conflict with
List of wars being involved in is not a list of countries being invaded and occupied, nice try though.
The bottom map is just a white map.
Garbage meme 1/5
and with the USSR
One 😂😂😂 bit is the way it even uses a purer shade of white for China.
See? You could have said that instead of posting falsified maps
honestly the map is too unserious to merit discussion
powerful posting.
What’s the Situationist term for this? Absorption or something.
I don’t think the issues you raise are valid.
It costs more than zero to levy a fine, but we are talking about many billions in income here. Your point would be valid if gathering staff and then fining Google 9 billion were a net zero. It isn’t.
We are likely better off having that money reinvested in preventing other companies from these practices.
Which is what I suggested. The best way to prevent these practices is libre alternatives.
Take some of that money you get fining surveillance-capitalists and use it to fund privacy-respecting libre alternatives
Fined Facebook €1.2 billion in May 2023
Fined Facebook €390 million in Jan 2023
Fined Microsoft €561 million in March 2013
“fined the company [Google] more than $9 billion for anticompetitive practices since 2017” (2019 article)
I have almost the exact opposite take on China.
Shit government, surveil people, torture people, no internet-freedom.
Their huge massive redeeming feature os that they REALLY give a shit about their working class.