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If you want to look at it from that perspective: the same reason the US does it. People also tend to forget that providing a service (in whatever fashion) does
by oneplane 5y ago
If you want to look at it from that perspective: the same reason the US does it.
People also tend to forget that providing a service (in whatever fashion) doesn't exist in a vacuum, there are the services and then there are the consumers of those services and they might have certain freedoms and rights that the locality of the service in question might not honour. Take the right to control your data for example, the US isn't very good at providing that with the services they offer, and they'd rather not have that freedom and rather make those few percent more money.
- kazen44 5y agoAlso, it makes sense in the broader EU strategy of becoming less reliant on the US. The EU has a good amount of soft power, this is just testing testing it's waters in directing policy more directly. (other examples are the Iran deal after the US left, and Intervention in Africa) Geopolitically, this makes a lot of sense, and i think the idea has good intentions, but the implementation of the law is where it falls short.