"diplomats"

No man, those people got fired in like week 1.

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Apparently this 15% bullshit trade deal is not ratified yet, so it can still be canceled

Why is the EU always blamed for everything? This is how you got brexit. Trade policy and negotiations included all of the inputs of the EU members' leaders. The problem is that they are split. Some are trump fans (Italy, Hungary), some can't imagine life without murica (Germany, Poland, Baltics, probably), some want more autonomy (France, Spain). This is merely a fragile compromise.

Yeah, thry are neoliberals interested in maintaining the neoliberal world order that has existed for the past 50 years.

Listen, no one should knowingly and willingly put their countries through more pain just to "win". I'm sure they calculated that the reduction in destruction was worth a try. They have levers to pull if it doesn't, but it will just create a lot of destruction for all sides.

I'm curious what you felt the EU should have done differently.

Lula won with 50.5%. That is how close they were to being enslaved again. It is not easy.

You don't need to be a nationalist to hate nationalists. In fact it kinda helps if you aren't.

I haven’t reviewed the whole thing, only small parts but it does look to handle online verification better (re: invasiveness).

There is a section talking about a prototype app already released that is used to store age. It verifies off a couple different government docs (ID, bank details, upcoming Digital ID), but in the end only stores the user’s age (no name, ID, birth date, or other details). The fact page for the app claims that once age is established there is no further contact between the user and age verifier, but of course this is where I likely see the issue with any age verification tool. It’ll depend on whether the verification tool trashes age-related data once done with it, or if they retain a copy for whatever reasons.

Proof of age is tied to the age required per country per activity, but this sounds far more reasonable than having a single company verify and manage age data (Persona in the US).

The Wikipedia page doesn't sound too bad, but IANAL.
The regulation linked from the wiki article only includes the word "age" three times and actually states:

[...] this prohibition should not lead the provider of the online platform to maintain, acquire or process more personal data than it already has in order to assess if the recipient of the service is a minor. Thus, this obligation should not incentivize providers of online platforms to collect the age of the recipient of the service prior to their use.

Haven't looked at it any more than that, but it sounds like it's already been in effect for ~2 years?

IANAL but the DSA says nothing about requirements to inform reporters on a community moderation level. It is only concerned with illegal content and this cannot be simply flagged. It has to be a sufficiently substantiated explanation reported to the instance legal contact.