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By the given reasoning every official at the EU wonders why they ever allowed Google, Facebook or Twitter to exist. This is balkanization.
by fidotron 2y ago
By the given reasoning every official at the EU wonders why they ever allowed Google, Facebook or Twitter to exist.
This is balkanization.
- drawkward 2y agoMy representatives represent me, my country, its citizens and its government. They specifically do NOT represent foreign entities.
- johnnyanmac 2y agoGiven the controversy over this, they clearly do not represent "the people". I think that's a big part of the issue.
- drawkward 2y agoClearly, huh? https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/09/05/support-for-a-us-tiktok-ban-continues-to-decline-and-half-of-adults-doubt-it-will-happen/ https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/09/05/support-f...
- p_j_w 2y agoThe ban only has 32% support from the US public. This isn’t happening because the government is representing its citizens.
- drawkward 2y agohow many oppose the ban? hint: it is less than 32%. what percentage of americans vote for a given president? hint: it is less than 32%.
- tmnvdb 2y agoThey have been wondering about that for many years quite explicitly.
- fidotron 2y agoYeah, I think WhatsApp in particular makes Facebook impossible to remove, but I fully expect X to get hit with a banhammer. The bizarre episode with Elon this week really didn’t help given it appears his whims trump any sense of rules or basic decency.
- tmnvdb 2y agoThe US has a lot of leverage on Europe, so I don't think it will happen any time soon.
- johnnyanmac 2y agoThe US forcing the EU to unban Twitter and Facebook would be the ultimate overreach needed to solidify the plutocracy American society has become.
- taylodl 2y agoMaybe they'll cite this ruling as part of a reconsideration?
- rwietter 2y agoExactly, Americans want to voice their opinions whenever a foreign country considers banning or regulating an American social media platform. It's a clear double standard. The U.S. government banning foreign companies is fine, but when a foreign country bans an American company, it’s called censorship or something like that?
- empath75 2y agoAn EU controlled app would be allowed in the US as none of them are foreign adversaries.
- fidotron 2y ago> none of them are foreign adversaries From the US side it may look like that, but the EU doesn’t see it that way.
- ttrgsafs 2y agoBut the US is a foreign adversary of the EU who has ruined the EU economy in the last three years and wants to wrestle away Greenland. Half joking, but the US performs corporate espionage in the EU and certainly takes compromising material on EU politicians whenever it can get it. The slavish adherence from EU NPC politicians (they are mediocre and no one knows how they manage to rise) to US directives has to have some reasons. Being compromised is one of those.
- empath75 2y agoEU governments also spy in the US. Any government that isn't spying on their enemies and allies both is incompetent. The reason that the EU "adheres to US directives" is mostly just a legacy of WWII and the Cold War, you don't really have to posit any kind of nefarious espionage scheme to explain why European countries want to stay connected to the US economy and military.
- johnnyanmac 2y agoUntil we ban Denmark as an "adversary" because they won't just hand over Greenland. Or Mexico for setting tarrifs against us (because we declared tarrifs first). Lovely precedent we just set here.
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- sidibe 2y agoYup I'd be ok with banning TikTok because all of the US web services that are banned China, but this makes it seem like every country should have their own everything
- mrighele 2y agoOfficials at the EU should first wonder why there is no European equivalent of Google, or Facebook, or Twitter, or Tiktok (the list could continue forever). Even if it where, such a company would not find the same obstacles in entering the American market as in would in China.