Maybe we shouldn’t buy from Ireland either. Not only that Ireland attracts Amazon, Meta, X & Co with its low tax politics at the expense of others. It also has a harmless GDPR office (which we know since the Schrems vs Meta cases) and is unwilling to fullfill EU’s Digital Service Act. Ireland is a compliant sidekick of US big business companies and data collectores.
Recently an Austrian Journalist tried to make X deleting hate speach and since nothing happened later tried to reveal the identity of a poster who violates Austrian law. Irland helped X perfectly to stay in its extralegal sphere. The original is in German Language, but the translation might be fine enough (if it wasn’t Google).
Well, here’s the biggest fines. Mainly from Ireland. https://dataprivacymanager.net/5-biggest-gdpr-fines-so-far-2020/
It’s not whataboutism when it’s not a deflection. I’m pointing out that all countries in the eu have differing laws and values. Boycotting one goes against the purpose of this community as well as the purpose of the eu as a whole.