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forcing consumers to use microsoft would be anti-competition, so no, not going to happen, at least outside of the usa
you underestimate us influence, they are getting this passed on at least some places around the world. and the eu hardware attestation scheme is a global foot on the door.
I do not underestimate mcmuricas slimy influence, it looks like you underestimate politicians desire to be re-elected in the eu, and elsewhere.
Guillotines will be making a comeback soon enough, obviously not in the usa though, where it is more important to cheer for your political team, than it is to remove a pedophile from power.
Actually, people in the US are bringing guillotines to townhall meetings over data centers
The more the merrier
politicians have to balance their personal desire to be reelected with the empire breathing down their necks with their military bases all pointed to them.
if some law is important enough for them, they can see it passed.
The eu is not going to force people to use windows, if they tried, that would be the effective end of the eu.
Some fascist countries within, and outside of the eu, whose rubbish politicians are owned by the usa, and israel, might consider it though.
we're commenting under that very news though.
"news" funny
european hardware attestation is news.
Never underestimate the power of ”protecting the children”. We are still fighting against Palantir and ChatControl 2.0 despite it getting constantly voted down, they are finding loopholes and dirty tricks to bring it closer and closer. They really want to feed all our chat data to Europol crimeAI. It’s been going on for years now and that came about through lobbying reasonably sane (but clueless) politicians with ”think of the children”.