This is a misreading of the situation, but I guess it makes for a better headline?
The GDPR etc. only came to be due to a specific political constellation where progressive privacy advocates and nationalistic forces formed an uneasy coalition. But now the political balance has shifted and the respondible EU commissioner has also changed.
Basically what we see now is that the nationalistic forces have rejoined with the neo-liberal ones that promise that if the EU just deregulates the sector hard enough there will be EU based big-tech to compete with the US based ones. This is of course total bollocks and an EU based big-tech wouldn’t be significantly better than an US or China based one, but it gets the nationalistic fraction’s support.
Okay, I will note the difference: there is none; a trillion in the pockets of an US billionair that doesn’t pay taxes is the same as a trillion in the pockets of a Europen billionair that doesn’t pay taxes.
No, that is a false comparison. Keeping money in the local economy doesn’t mean we have to have our own monopolistic surveillance capitalist big-tech companies.
This is a misreading of the situation, but I guess it makes for a better headline?
The GDPR etc. only came to be due to a specific political constellation where progressive privacy advocates and nationalistic forces formed an uneasy coalition. But now the political balance has shifted and the respondible EU commissioner has also changed.
Basically what we see now is that the nationalistic forces have rejoined with the neo-liberal ones that promise that if the EU just deregulates the sector hard enough there will be EU based big-tech to compete with the US based ones. This is of course total bollocks and an EU based big-tech wouldn’t be significantly better than an US or China based one, but it gets the nationalistic fraction’s support.
“Better” isn’t the right term here.
Note the difference: Trillions of bucks flowing to California, or Trillions of bucks flowing into European pockets.
Exactly. There is no option for Europe other than developing its own technology. https://feddit.uk/c/buyeuropean
Okay, I will note the difference: there is none; a trillion in the pockets of an US billionair that doesn’t pay taxes is the same as a trillion in the pockets of a Europen billionair that doesn’t pay taxes.
No, that is a false comparison. Keeping money in the local economy doesn’t mean we have to have our own monopolistic surveillance capitalist big-tech companies.