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Given the focus on market share charts, that's fair enough - but I don't think that's anyone's complaint with, say, Uber. There's a whole host of different prob
by tragic 11y ago
Given the focus on market share charts, that's fair enough - but I don't think that's anyone's complaint with, say, Uber. There's a whole host of different problems here (including anti-trust, data protection, 'right to be forgotten', Uber's indifference to local laws) that are being amalgamated here to present European concerns as basically a matter of sour grapes at American success. (This is ironic, since they accuse Europe of making amalgams.)
Each of these issues is different (for instance, I think the 'right to be forgotten' case was absurd), and presenting them as an amalgam is ... unhelpful.
- icebraining 11y agoWell, the problem is that, while I had never heard of "GAFA" and "NATU", there is absolutely an amalgamated opposition to these companies, not because of those particular problems, nor (I would claim) from sour grapes, but from a general aversion to American multi-nationals, which is common among the whole political spectrum in much of Europe. It's waining among the younger generations, but around here Coke is still referred to as the "dirty water of imperialism" - and only half-jokingly. So, often these specific complaints are less actual grievances, and more excuses to criticize and call for restricting the expansion of these companies on our soil.