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EU governments love to take on big tech, but does it reflect in the actual populace?

by elevatedastalt 3y ago

beejiu 3y ago
> but does it reflect in the actual populace? Does that matter?
- elevatedastalt 3y ago
  Yes, because the comment I replied to was talking about the consumers (aka the populace. > I assume Apple is _banking on consumers siding with them_ on it but I have to wonder about the wisdom of doing that
izacus 3y ago
Yes. The populace votes and supports this widely.
rvba 3y ago
Yes. Apart from getting things cheaper, there are multiple reasons from country to country (people prefer to not share private data, generic dislike for big tech, pirate party)
kachnuv_ocasek 3y ago
Mostly yes.
munk-a 3y ago
I'm jealous as hell of the EU citizens that get such good protections. I'm sure it's a mixed bag like everywhere but my experience with activity tracking is that a lot of people do aggressively refuse tracking when given the choice... so I'd imagine other tech regulations have similar participation.
riffraff 3y ago
I've yet to encounter anyone who cheers for Big tech in the EU, so I guess yes. People complain about many of the commission initiatives, but seldom when they tackle anti competitive behavior (even tho they lost a few times).
Barrin92 3y ago
speaking as only one EU citizen but echoing what I'm pretty confident is a widely held sentiment, yes we're tired of having the rules of our digital spaces dictated to us by big tech and the times where companies can act like feudal fiefdoms is coming to an end, hopefully quickly.
arlcode 3y ago
Even non-technical people understand that Big Tech is mostly foreign and under the laws of a country where at least one of the presidential candidates is promising a worse relationship with Europe. The EU currently experiences a shift towards nationalistic and populist parties and that doesn't help big tech either. Apple and Google are known as tax dodgers. In addition there are also people who understand the technical and economical details.

EU governments love to take on big tech, but does it reflect in the actual populace?

beejiu 3y ago

> but does it reflect in the actual populace? Does that matter?

elevatedastalt 3y ago
Yes, because the comment I replied to was talking about the consumers (aka the populace. > I assume Apple is _banking on consumers siding with them_ on it but I have to wonder about the wisdom of doing that

izacus 3y ago

Yes. The populace votes and supports this widely.

rvba 3y ago

Yes. Apart from getting things cheaper, there are multiple reasons from country to country (people prefer to not share private data, generic dislike for big tech, pirate party)

kachnuv_ocasek 3y ago

Mostly yes.

munk-a 3y ago

I'm jealous as hell of the EU citizens that get such good protections. I'm sure it's a mixed bag like everywhere but my experience with activity tracking is that a lot of people do aggressively refuse tracking when given the choice... so I'd imagine other tech regulations have similar participation.

riffraff 3y ago

I've yet to encounter anyone who cheers for Big tech in the EU, so I guess yes. People complain about many of the commission initiatives, but seldom when they tackle anti competitive behavior (even tho they lost a few times).

Barrin92 3y ago

speaking as only one EU citizen but echoing what I'm pretty confident is a widely held sentiment, yes we're tired of having the rules of our digital spaces dictated to us by big tech and the times where companies can act like feudal fiefdoms is coming to an end, hopefully quickly.

arlcode 3y ago

Even non-technical people understand that Big Tech is mostly foreign and under the laws of a country where at least one of the presidential candidates is promising a worse relationship with Europe. The EU currently experiences a shift towards nationalistic and populist parties and that doesn't help big tech either. Apple and Google are known as tax dodgers. In addition there are also people who understand the technical and economical details.