You got this wrong. Europeans are breaking European privacy laws if they give the US customs data about other people (family, etc.) without their consent. The fine would be by their own country, not by the USA. And European countries typically take back all their citizens.

Centralized has advantages for normal users who want to report bugs.

I remember when people started migrating to GitHub from Google Code. Most users have some Google account that they could use to report bugs. But GitHub was new.

For a long time I tried reaching developers by mail, but this wasn’t possible anymore. I had to create a GitHub account.

I unsubscribed. But he gained new subscribers. Nobody else cared.

In Germany they want to lower the taxes for restaurants. One of the big winners will be McDonald’s. 🙁

Well, my kind of humor.