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Facebook is a company that has plans for (and has achieved) global dominance and is not aligned with European interests. Boeing is a company backed by an entit

Facebook is a company that has plans for (and has achieved) global dominance and is not aligned with European interests. Boeing is a company backed by an entity which has plans for (and has achieved) global dominance and is increasingly not aligned with European interests. I know there's a huge difference between the US Government and the Chinese Government, but that difference is decreasing. And Facebook, well I simply do not trust them. Honestly, I fear what this is leading to.

xuki 6y ago
FB is an asshole but it's OUR asshole. How dare you? /s
abc-xyz 6y ago
It’s no secret that the EU want to achieve technological sovereignty. It seems like it would be a good thing if you didn’t have these billion-user social networks, operated by foreign entities that are likely to use them to spread propaganda, censorship, election interference, etc.
- rjtavares 6y ago
  It would be an even better thing if supra-national entities (huge companies) had to deal with multi-national entities. That would level the playing field. Countries competing for the attention of monopolistic companies will just provoke a tranfer of wealth from the citizens of all countries to those companies (see: tax havens).
jorvi 6y ago
> Boeing is a company backed by an entity which has plans for (and has achieved) global dominance and is increasingly not aligned with European interests. Airbus and Boeing pretty much go toe-to-toe, no? Also Boeing still has the very possible abandoning of the 787-Max and the WTO dispute resolution (that still hasn’t been implemented) looming over them.
- ChuckNorris89 6y ago
  >Airbus and Boeing pretty much go toe-to-toe, no? Except for the part where the NSA is doing political and industrial espionage on Airbus on behalf of Boeing and the US gov so they can throw a wrench in Airbus's negotiations with other governments.
- seanmcdirmid 6y ago
  737 Max, the 787 is still doing quite well.
vorpalhex 6y ago
But Facebook isn't backed by the US government given that we keep pulling them in front of congress and now the executive is making an attack on Section 230. That's not to say that FB isn't globally dominant - just that it isn't propped up by any country, and it'd certainly be fair to punish them for breaking or flouting rules. Boeing as a company producing a massive amount of planes for the EU is absolutely aligned with European interests. Their current scandal is also a scandal in the US and they've also been (and continue to be) punished and investigated for it. You can't just say "but Facebook!" in response to TikTok, a company siphoning data into a blackhole in China at the behest of the CCP and engaging in censoring as befits the CCP. The current status quo hurts everyone whether in the US or the EU.
sbmthakur 6y ago
I don't know how Facebook and Boeing are comparable to the entity I was talking about. These companies don't have an army under them, are not running indoctrination camps and are not in border disputes with numerous countries.

xuki 6y ago

FB is an asshole but it's OUR asshole. How dare you? /s

abc-xyz 6y ago

It’s no secret that the EU want to achieve technological sovereignty. It seems like it would be a good thing if you didn’t have these billion-user social networks, operated by foreign entities that are likely to use them to spread propaganda, censorship, election interference, etc.

rjtavares 6y ago
It would be an even better thing if supra-national entities (huge companies) had to deal with multi-national entities. That would level the playing field. Countries competing for the attention of monopolistic companies will just provoke a tranfer of wealth from the citizens of all countries to those companies (see: tax havens).

jorvi 6y ago

> Boeing is a company backed by an entity which has plans for (and has achieved) global dominance and is increasingly not aligned with European interests. Airbus and Boeing pretty much go toe-to-toe, no? Also Boeing still has the very possible abandoning of the 787-Max and the WTO dispute resolution (that still hasn’t been implemented) looming over them.

ChuckNorris89 6y ago
>Airbus and Boeing pretty much go toe-to-toe, no? Except for the part where the NSA is doing political and industrial espionage on Airbus on behalf of Boeing and the US gov so they can throw a wrench in Airbus's negotiations with other governments.
seanmcdirmid 6y ago
737 Max, the 787 is still doing quite well.

vorpalhex 6y ago

But Facebook isn't backed by the US government given that we keep pulling them in front of congress and now the executive is making an attack on Section 230. That's not to say that FB isn't globally dominant - just that it isn't propped up by any country, and it'd certainly be fair to punish them for breaking or flouting rules. Boeing as a company producing a massive amount of planes for the EU is absolutely aligned with European interests. Their current scandal is also a scandal in the US and they've also been (and continue to be) punished and investigated for it. You can't just say "but Facebook!" in response to TikTok, a company siphoning data into a blackhole in China at the behest of the CCP and engaging in censoring as befits the CCP. The current status quo hurts everyone whether in the US or the EU.

sbmthakur 6y ago

I don't know how Facebook and Boeing are comparable to the entity I was talking about. These companies don't have an army under them, are not running indoctrination camps and are not in border disputes with numerous countries.