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I certainly am. I don't want a European Google or Facebook popping up. I want the existing Google and Facebook to go away.
by ionised 8y ago
I certainly am. I don't want a European Google or Facebook popping up. I want the existing Google and Facebook to go away.
- eunos 8y agoI must say I am quite disturbed by this mindset. Just imagine if European countries back then rejected Industrialization due to massive externalities (Pollution, child workforce, etc), they would not survive the Great War (WW1). In addition, while big tech companies might be not very appealing in terms of security and privacy, you better have those which can be easily influentable and molded. That wont be possible without indigenous tech giants
- growlist 8y agoFacebook at least seems to have caused more human misery than happiness.
- eunos 8y agoBetter have something that caused human misery yet profitable and globally used tgat you can control than you cannot control
- moosey 8y agoI desperately want Europe to replace most services I'm using, because I prefer their regulatory environment. Primary examples would be gmail and google (I'm using qwant and it doesn't compare, but I use it before I switch to google). I do not use facebook anymore, and although I have a twitter account I do not use it. Based on my daughters phone usage, I don't think that facebook is the thing anyways. It's all private chat rooms with her friends, which seems like a much healthier online interaction than what FB is. I just want to see that kind of thing primarily incubated and hosted in the European regulatory environment, because I don't trust the U.S. one where I live.