Good on you EU! I think a majority of the world would like to see Big Tech brought down a couple hundred pegs.
this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2025
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All it takes is a critical mass of users to make their own Facebook. A continental divide seems like a good place.
When America sends their users, they're not sending their best. They're sending trolls, shitposters, influencers. They're bringing Ben Shapiro and Alex Jones. And some, I assume, are good users.
Edit: The original quote (about Mexicans) is from 2015. Feel old yet?
This isn't as much about the social media platforms, competing with those is relatively feasible. This is more about the professional infrastructure market. Microsoft Azure, AWS and Google Cloud. There isn't really a European competitor there, the US dominates this market. We have a huge trade deficit on these services, which Trump "conveniently" didn't include in his trade war analysis.
ahh... I was wondering when people were going to start talking about Tariffs in relation to streaming services and purchasing software...
You're thinking too small. Think of taxes on Enterprise software.
Sounds like a good idea, hit them where it hurts! I left Big Tech a while ago, but if the EU can hit them with tariffs and hurt people like Zuck and (F)Elon, awesome!
Show this to Varoufakis.
Break up Ticketmaster!
Newspapers, magazines, TV, film, movies, broadcasts are all regulated nationally and internationally
The same should be done for corporate social media companies who basically deliver all or most news content and information to people everywhere today.
The current state of the world is like being in the 1900s and only having six major newspapers in the world owned by big corporations and none of the content they publish or share is regulated or controlled.
Why not legalising piracy for media made in the US? Imagine if all movies and TV series were suddenly public domain in Europe...