From the article:
> Let that sink in. You scanned your European passport for a European professional network, and your data went exclusively to North American companies. Not a single EU-based subprocessor in the chain.
Not sure LinkedIn is a European professional network.
I think the author was talking about their own professional network being based in Europe, as opposed by LinkedIn, the platform that they're using to contact said network.
Yeah, he might have wanted to use Xing. Of course, he'd be pretty lonely there.
Viadeo is slightly more popular
>Let that sink in
That's a hallmark of GPT spam, so it's not surprising there's hallucinations.
and "That blue badge might not be worth what you’re trading for it. A checkmark is cosmetic. Biometric data is forever."
I like the article, but I think it was nearly wholly LLM-generated. It's a shame that this contrived writing style is becoming so commonplace. Just annoying, more than anything.
GPTZero (not sure how reliable it is) said it was 100% generated.
Their use of LinkedIn is for local and semi-local professional networks. It's like if you use Nextdoor for your street.
And of course those Europeans use LinkedIn for the network effect (even though LinkedIn is just a pathetic sad dead mall now, so most are doing so for an illusion), because other prior waves of Europeans also used LinkedIn, and so on. Domestic or regional alternatives falter because everyone demands they be on the "one" site.
The centralization of tech, largely to the US for a variety of reasons, has been an enormous, colossal mistake.
It's at this point I have to laud what China did. They simply banned foreign options in many spaces and healthy domestic options sprouted up overnight. Many countries need to start doing this, especially given that US tech is effectively an arm of a very hostile government that is waging intense diplomatic and trade warfare worldwide, especially against allies.
I would prefer to live in a free country, where I can choose my services from among a couple of options. But the government you appeal to should install and execute laws to protect citizens by forcing foreign players to abide by local rulse or be forced to declare that they are not, in large red letters so no-one can say they did not know (legalese small-print does not suffice as we know).
>I would prefer to live in a free country…
Well if you’re in a country Trump has threatened to invade, or already invaded, having a free country might require banning these American companies.
Is there really a choice? Network effect means that the company that sells you cars also owns the road, and only allows its cars to drive on it.
What you want is the social graph, but you are forced to also use FBs shitty app to access it. These social media apps never had a single useful feature besides the graph itself.