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The EU is in a bind. Long ago it has outsourced its entire digital infrastructure to the US (opting to finesse internal combustion engines instead). Nowadays t
by nologic01 3y ago
The EU is in a bind. Long ago it has outsourced its entire digital infrastructure to the US (opting to finesse internal combustion engines instead).
Nowadays the result is the complete dependence in what is increasingly an existential piece of technology on the unregulated cowboy regime that is charitably termed "big tech".
This rubs alot of people wrong in terms, e.g., of data privacy practices and olipolistic market power, hence these unprecedented regulations and measures.
Whether something meaningful will be achieved is questionable, but anybody trying to dismiss these signals doesn't understand the stresses that are building up in the digital domain.
- em-bee 3y agoi don't think that is relevant. every other country in the world except china and maybe russia has the same problem. the EU is the only one at least to be able to do something about it, and in the long term that will help other countries as well (as they now can just demand the same openness, which will allow local alternatives to at least have a chance)