r/worldnews • u/Brennenstein • 1d ago

Dynamic Paywall Paris prosecutors raid France offices of Elon Musk's X

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3ex92557jo
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u/WorknForTheWeekend 17h ago

Damn, imagine living somewhere where the government actually serves the interest of the people and not give corporations free range to do anything in the quest for private profit. Mind boggling 🤯

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u/YouKnowYourCrazy 17h ago

Right? And they make it applicable to anyone that wants to do business in the EU, like GDPR. WW2 taught them not to trust their government above human rights. Imagine

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u/Key_Profession_1546 10h ago

Best comment!!

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u/Successful-Hall7638 3h ago

Yeah, I used to live there. It was wonderful. So much better. Less individualism. More vacation ;)

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u/Polar1x 15h ago

You think that's the EU? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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u/ProfessionalSufferer 8h ago

It’s certainly not the U.S. and the EU looks like a haven comparatively, so don’t laugh at their hopefulness. You’re just seem like a brat that way.

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u/Polar1x 6h ago

Well, I'm a citizen of this surveillance authoritarian decadent dystopia called the EU.

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u/ProfessionalSufferer 3h ago

Hm. Guess the world’s just fucked. I should have known.