>The E.U.’s Digital Markets Act would create a slew of new obligations and restrictions for dominant tech companies including Amazon, Google, Apple and Facebook. (Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.)
>That includes blocking the tech giants from giving their own products preferential treatment, prohibiting app stores from requiring that developers use their payment systems, and requiring that major platforms make their services interoperable with competitors’ products.
The horror!
The US is strongly opposed to individual rights, especially privacy.
Laws about privacy make it harder to prosecute and persecute women who seek medical care.
Yes, Religion, specifically American Evangelism, is the reason the US can’t get decent privacy laws.
It used to be that Americans didn’t like tech regulations but now Big Tech has made enemies both left and right. They’ve exhausted a lot of goodwill.
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>The E.U.’s Digital Markets Act would create a slew of new obligations and restrictions for dominant tech companies including Amazon, Google, Apple and Facebook. (Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post.)
>That includes blocking the tech giants from giving their own products preferential treatment, prohibiting app stores from requiring that developers use their payment systems, and requiring that major platforms make their services interoperable with competitors’ products.
The horror!
The US is strongly opposed to individual rights, especially privacy.
Laws about privacy make it harder to prosecute and persecute women who seek medical care.
Yes, Religion, specifically American Evangelism, is the reason the US can’t get decent privacy laws.
It used to be that Americans didn’t like tech regulations but now Big Tech has made enemies both left and right. They’ve exhausted a lot of goodwill.