Every time I go out there is a new #thing. It's a fucking #conspiracy!

I am not joking. What is happening in the #USA right now is the biggest fucking conspiracy in the history of the country. The #wealth #class is colluding with itself to form #anticompetitive #megacartels in an effort to build the #new #feudalism. And they are succeeding. Where are all the conspiracy "theorists" when you need them. Do we even need them. The fucking CEOs (we need to drag a few out into the street, string them up by their feet and slit their fucking throats from ear to ear, and shoot anyone who tries to approach their rotting corpses) talk openly about what they are doing with a giddiness that is unparalleled. I don't know why they waited until #Trump was out of office to kick off the completely fucking illegal anti-competitive, anti-"free"-market, cartel price-fixing bullshit. But they did. And they are acting like the #Twitler himself, talking openly about the crimes against everyone they are committing.

Anyway, it's death by a thousand cuts. Every time I go out, the price on something or other has gone up by 50% or 100% (they give "inflation" as an excuse). And they are all doing the thing where they complain about not being able to hire people, while simultaneously bragging about low unemployment, and forcing people to work 12 hour days for 10 weeks in a row. All of the #paradoxes are mind-boggling. None of these CEO assholes have any fucking idea what they are doing. They just go in, raise the prices, hire consultants to exploit the workforce, pump up the stock price with a never-ending fount of TEDtalk bullshit, and cash out before it all collapses and take their winnings and go… where?

The USA used to be the place that corrupt Third World sociopaths went to when they hollowed out their shithole countries. Now we are just a series of shitholes with nukes and interstates between them. It's insane. It just keeps getting worse and worse. It's like the tail end of the Bush Administration all over again. And we know exactly who is doing it and why. And they are just laughing. NOTHING WILL CHANGE UNTIL WE FUCKING KILL SOME OF THEM.

Nextcloud Forms European Coalition — Begins Antitrust Actions Against Microsoft Over Default Inclusions Of Teams And One Drive In Windows

The Germany-based company behind the on-premises content collaboration platform that shares its name, has put together a coalition of 30 organizations to fight Microsoft on antitrust grounds.
The issue is the integration of Teams as a default application in Windows 11, along with Microsoft pushing One Drive for file storage in its software, especially in its browser based 365 family of apps.

“This is quite similar to what Microsoft did when it killed competition in the browser market, stopping nearly all browser innovation for over a decade,” Nextcloud’s founder and CEO said in a statement. “This kind of behaviour is bad for the consumer, for the market and, of course, for local businesses in the EU. Together with the other members of the coalition, we are asking the antitrust authorities in Europe to enforce a level playing field, giving customers a free choice and to give competition a fair chance.”

Gaël Duval, founder and CEO of France-based ECorp/Esolutions, said in a statement. “Microsoft should compete on the merits of their solution, not pushing it down users throats with anticompetitive behaviours.”

So yes, the case is about giving others a fairer chance to compete, especially the various enterprise open source providers as well as proprietary vendors. But previously with the browser market, this did open up the market to a lot more competition and variety.

See Nextcloud Forms European Coalition – Begins Antitrust Actions Against Microsoft – FOSS Force

#technology #EU #anticompetitive #microsoft #competition #opensource

Nextcloud, The Document Foundation and 28 others are pushing the EU and member states to end noncompetitive actions by Microsoft and others.

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https://gadgeteer.co.za/nextcloud-forms-european-coalition-begins-antitrust-actions-against-microsoft-over-default-inclusions-of-teams-and-one-drive-in-windows/

#Facebook takes the #EU to court over #privacy spat

#Facebook has pushed back against a #European Union investigation into its practices, taking it to court over #privacy concerns.
Two investigations are being carried out into Facebook to find out if it breaches #competition laws. To gather information, the European Commission has demanded internal documents from Facebook that include 2,500 specific key phrases.

Facebook says that means handing over unrelated but highly sensitive data.
The European Commission says it will defend the case in court, and its investigation into Facebook's potential #anticompetitive conduct is ongoing.
The social media giant has filed an appeal to the EU courts, arguing against the breadth of the document requests.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-53558947