As far as I know there is some tax loophole, that’s why the tech giants are all registered in Ireland for their EU headquarters.

Will he declare war and then negotiate a 300 billion peace deal with Europe?

Nah, up to the 2000s Microsoft actually had a product people wanted. A platform to work and play on, biggest range of programs, open hardware standards companies could develop products for and mass market adoption to pull software developers in. The developers at MS designed software they wanted and needed, and most professional MS products I worked with hat an awesome documentation that explained features well and encouraged you to try it out with short and relatable examples.

Apple was expensive and mostly incompatible hardware and low market share. Amiga had better graphics, but was mostly a gaming system and had a lower market share. PC was a something people already knew from work, and everyone was pirating programs and games, so the “cost” of buying into the PC was relatively low for the consumer.

However today Windows sales are a small part of Microsoft profits. The bigger share is cloud computing or office subscriptions. That’s why they push Copilot into everything, and they annoy you to use a Microsoft account for everything so they can push you into their subscriptios.

If the ID is indeed verified then you need matching faces, names, passport numbers and birthdays. Also you cannot sign up with an ID that has been previously registered, since the point of IDs is that they are unique. Passports even come with an expiry date, which limits the damage you can do with stolen data.

I actually think that this might be a good idea to keep bot networks of the platform, as long as this info is not public.

Nothing prevents trolls from automatically creating 100000 new accounts, have them all follow 1 account and then just like and share their posts for visibility on either twitter or Facebook, to tell boomers that billionaires are great people. Neither Facebook nor twitter will block those fake accounts as long as they bring in ad money, or their goals don’t go against their owners interest.

Better, we have https://fritz-kola.com/ .