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Along with chat control, it really seems like the EU is pushing a dystopian digital agenda.
by elric 1y ago
Along with chat control, it really seems like the EU is pushing a dystopian digital agenda.
- mono442 1y ago[flagged]
- Sharlin 1y agoSuuure, if the USSR had been a deeply neoliberal market economy. Something tells me you don't know anything about either the EU or the USSR.
- brookst 1y agoWhile I agree EU is nothing like USSR, calling it a market economy is kind of questionable. It’s a bit of a hybrid, which companies allowed to market and sell on their own but with intense regulatory control over product design. From USBC to ad supported business models, the EU has fairly tight control over how products are designed and monetized, in a way that I don’t think can be described as a pure market economy. Note that I’m NOT saying their level of centralized control and government specification of product requirements is bad. It’s a legit trade off and there are arguments that some or all of it is enlightened. But it’s certainly not a place where you just build your product and ship it and let the market decide.
- riffraff 1y agosince when a market economy need to have no regulation? Market economies are contrasted with planned economies, i.e. how prices are determined and production allocated, and the EU most decidedly is not that.
- brookst 1y agoSince when is “no regulation” the only alternative to bureaucrats defining minute product details that customers are perfectly capable of preferring with their wallet? Really, that was a very lazy false dichotomy.
- mono442 1y agoWell, obviously there are differences, but some overreaching and, I believe, unrealistic policies, such as the EU's climate policies, are somewhat reminiscent of the Soviet Union's central planning.
- miroljub 1y agoIt's time to rush to Russia, while we still can. If they accept us, of course. Not everyone is Snowden.
- k0tan32 1y agoDid you forget the "\s" marker? Russia is a one way step ahead here, with mandatory pre-installed apps, full-scale internet censorship (still catching up with China, though), mandatory DPI, etc.