When Big Tech sets its own rules, Europe has failed

https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000277502/wenn-big-tech-die-eigenen-regeln-bestimmt-hat-europa-versagt

by Komplexkonjugiert

13 comments

  1. Brussels is apparently prepared to make far-reaching concessions to Trump. This puts an end to the idea of digital sovereignty and Europe’s digital decade.

  2. VdL in the EU and her cronies or Rutte in the NATO, everyone is busy ass kissing the Orange Führer. And this group celebrates it as some sort of diplomatic masterstroke.

    When in the end, Europe is being treated as a vassal. I hope Europeans can grow some spine.

  3. I’m hoping Canada will go back to the tech tax. Carney is trying to buy time to solidify trade with Europe. That will break US imperialism dramatically. We are already not using American products as best as we can. But tech is something without a complete substitute, yet. Fingers crossed.

  6. I think everyone in Europe hopes after the orange genius is gone things will go back to the way it was before. But it’s not going to go back. Europe needs to be more united and have own digital alternatives to anything Americans can shut off. The cloud, credit cards, petro currency, chips, high-tech industries, military equipment all of it.

    America showed its real face and it treats Europe like it treats Mexico – a vassal dump for its’ products and influence

  7. The cloud platforms were a trap right from the start.

    Today, most business depends on them (either directly or indirectly). If you tax them, they’ll raize their prices and businesses will suffer.

    A solution would be to index a tax rebate on the foreign cloud platform price evolution (and not on your consumption, too dangerous/exploitable) but it would be tricky.

    THE solution would be to cut our dependency to them by building european platforms on an opensource solution. We need european compatible platforms proposing the same services as Amazon/Azure/GCP.

    But we’re decaded behind, gonna be hard.

  8. Here we have a dilemma:

    US tech firms thrive due to next to no regulation. Then they become too big to manage.

    EU firms are more regulated (which I agree with), and that generally means they can’t innovate or grow fast enough to realistically compete.

    If you’re trying to compete, the one who doesn’t have to play by the rules will win.

  9. Man, we used to rule the world, now we’re bitches. The harder the fall and all that

  10. Blackrock Merz is clearly pushing for a deal, which he then hopes to sell as a win like a snake oil salesman does with his wares.

  12. “When Big Tech sets its own rules, Europe has failed” said the mournful protagonist of the great European novel. He looked into the distance through the frail old windows, deep into the mists that surrounded his challet. Taking a sip of his Nespresso as the looming morning sun was feeling it’s way through the mist, he realized for the first time the richness and complexity of the dark aromas, much like the complexity and richness of the dark world around him.

  13. The title looks like a translation of an ancient Chinese proverb 

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