I received mail from eures.europa.eu to Gmail for years before Google’s new “be evil” act.
Ban Google in EU. Don’t let citizens use enemy services in a cold war.
As someone who currently has a large portion of the Internet blocked - NO. You do NOT want that. This has awful implications and is very much a slippery slope. A lot of necessary info and contacts are on Google - is this bad? Yeah, absolutely, but right now losing access to Google would mean losing access to this information. While blocking the addresses of such a big company, you’d inevitably break unexpected parts of the Internet as collateral. If the people want to use the service - a lot out of habit, a lot because there aren’t alternatives suitable for them - they would use proxies or VPNs (and in my experience - often opening themselves to risk in the process, because they’d go with a random free VPN from Play Store). It is very possible they’d go after the censorship evasion protocols next.
If you really want bans - maybe banning the companies from buying ads, or using Google’s tools for business would be fine. But NOT fragmenting the Web further and strengthening the censorship infrastructure.
Source please.
My Gmail, and I forgot to screenshot because I’ve learned to hit the “not spam” button by reflex like swatting a mosquito.
So email from one EU domain got filtered for you, and you concluded that every email from the EU is being filtered for everyone, on account of being from the EU? Am I understanding this right?
I assume there’s one filter for the whole Gmail doing the same for everyone. For the sabotage to be allowed to continue, it has to be plausibly deniable, so it’s probably doing a little bit of this and that randomly for different people.
Can you think of any other possible and more likely explanation for them being filtered, other than “the entire EU is being filtered by Google”?
If you wanted evidence that the entire EU is not being filtered, what would that evidence look like?
May I suggest you change email providers then? You get to hurt google by not giving them your data and support smaller european companies. Here’s a list in no particular order. I personally use Tuta it’s not as feature rich as Gmail but the company is miniscule in comparison. https://european-alternatives.eu/category/email-providers
Europe did not declare war on google afaik, what do mean “the enemy”.
Look I get the desire to stop an evil corp getting away with it, but restricting access for your citizens is the absolute last thing you should (if ever) consider. EU is a huge market for google, ergo, it has power over it. Continue to regulate, tax and penalize it for its misbehaviors. If it doesn’t comply, seize some if it money see how they like it. Tariff all of its services in favor of a local company.
But for the love of all that is holy stop trying to end the last vestiges of world wide web we still have.
