this post was submitted on 30 Oct 2026
361 points (99.5% liked)
Technology
89251 readers
4429 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Surely to God foreigners (especially foreign corporations) can't just come and do that shit in a country. There must have been some signoff by the local authorities, otherwise isn't that an invasion?
Judging from the content of the article, the problem is that Google's local subsidiary started on construction prematurely before the environmental assessment paperwork was complete (but after they already owned the site). Short of keeping a watch on the site 24/7, I don't see how the local authorities could have prevented that. It's possible that they may have been lazy and complacent, but absent actual evidence I doubt they were complicit.
Our society operates to a large extent on an underlying assumption that most people will not try to do anything blatantly illegal in plain view. Finland has just learned the hard way that this is not true of large American corporations.
And, as Microsoft's guy said last year, these motherfuckers think they have "social consent" (God I fucking hate that term) to do anything that isn't explicitly illegal under the letter of the law.
No, it isn't an invasion. Google bought and owned this land, then started construction before getting the permits to do so.
This is like you buying a small vacation land by a lake in another country, then starting to build a cabin on it before getting permits to build. You aren't invading that country.