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It shouldn't take long for some enterprising Europeans to create a far better, less polarising social networking site. It could even be more culturally sensitiv
by GianFabien 5y ago
It shouldn't take long for some enterprising Europeans to create a far better, less polarising social networking site. It could even be more culturally sensitive and inclusive.
- mcv 5y agoIt shouldn't, and yet, why isn't there already one? There are plenty of innovative tech companies coming from Europe, but most of them get gobbled up by American ones, or never break through internationally. Interestingly, Netherland was one of the last countries where Facebook finally became the #1 social network; for a long time, a Dutch social network called Hives managed to hold out (over 10 year ago, mind you). And even now, Amazon isn't even in the top-3 of Dutch internet retailers. But I don't see bol.com or Cool Blue expanding internationally. It should absolutely be possible for European tech companies to compete with American ones, and yet it's not really happening. Where is the big European cloud provider designed around the EU's data protection rules? Why are big European internet retailers all national affairs and not at least EU-wide?