Liberation Day Arrives In Europe As Blockade Falls On US Mainstream Media Outlets
Today, 25 May 2018, will forever be known as the day Europe Was Liberated—and whose liberation was achieved by the coming into full force of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that is the world’s first rebalancing of power between us, the people who have to hand over data to do transactions on the internet, and the global tech giants and companies that have beaten us into submission to become nothing more to them than digital slaves whose every action, thought and feeling are monetized for their exclusive benefit—and whose catastrophic penalties for breaking this law will see these global tech giants having to pay maximum fines up to €20 million ($23.4 million) or 4% of their organization’s global annual turnover, whichever is higher. […]