This is like seeing those php jokes in programming humor communities. Because they’re clearly made by someone who is well over a decade out of date with their information.

For reference symbolic links were properly introduced in Vista(2006), but junction points were available before that.

Not at all.

More attention means more people see it, so even if the percentage of complainers haven’t changed, there are more people who know.

On top of that, there was criticism before. There’s that streamer who was mocked relentlessly in comments and some defending him, there were articles about game developer lobby groups complaining that were posted here, etc.

If you do a “germany walmart before:2023” search, you’ll find a bunch of English articles about the whole ordeal. It was in Forbes, NYT, etc. almsot twenty years ago because of how badly they failed on multiple levels.

Once again, America shows how “free” they actually are.

And to show that the protection is not theoretical in Europe: Walmart implemented that policy when they tried getting into the German market twenty years ago. They were so insistent that it took a judge to tell them to stop it since it was against the law(It’s sraight up against the first and second article of the German constitution, which protects personal freedom).

Are you just waking up from a coma? Because they’ve been pretty open about wanting to privatize the government and run it like a business. Mitt Romney basically campaigned on that over a decade ago.