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France Pushes to Widen EU Regulations on Big Tech Companies
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Which will never happen unless government makes the necessary laws, and then bothers to enforce them.
Amazing how quick these discussion turns to the hate for EU and unfiltered praise for US companies. The real question here is if the big techs are taking the responsibility they should regarding taxes, safety, integrity, fair market practice.
These big ones need to understand that they are not an upstart in a garage anymore and should act accordingly. The behaviour of Big tech seem to be a mixture of childish enthusiasm for new features mixed with unrestricted greed and no real understanding how much power they have and with power comes responsibilities. Self regulation is best and they are not doing a terribly good job at that and hence they get a reprimand by governments. The fix seem obvious to me.
These big ones need to understand that they are not an upstart in a garage anymore and should act accordingly. The behaviour of Big tech seem to be a mixture of childish enthusiasm for new features mixed with unrestricted greed and no real understanding how much power they have and with power comes responsibilities. Self regulation is best and they are not doing a terribly good job at that and hence they get a reprimand by governments. The fix seem obvious to me.
Good. And it won't be just the EU that wants US companies out.
Remember the USA is only about 4% of the worlds population.
And you are NOT the greatest country on earth.
Right. Let's go back to isolationism. Let's not share any beneficial medical research with the EU, even life-saving information and drugs. Is that where this conversation is going?
Apt analogue. I guess that anyone sometimes take a fight with a tyrannical master. Guess what France is doing with the big techs?
Orwellian and communistic - we must fight to protect humanity from the coming genocide.
Hm, you could begin with the current. Reaching 500 000 today, all killed by the US govt.
Give it time, Comissar Biden will do the samething, as will his Communist Party(Dems). To me, Dems are lying communists, republicans are too. So, really the USA has a one party system called the Communist Party, UASS.
China doesn't kill anyone. They wiped out the epidemic at an early stage, with less than 5000 deaths in total. That is a FIVE HUNDRED times lower toll than that of the US, counted per capita.
And that without even knowing what they were up against. China had to find out as they went, and when they were done, they left the US and the world a complete playbook on how to deal with the virus.
Did the US listen? No, they didn't. They played it down, and weighed it against the immediate economical damage (ignoring or not understanding the long-term damage). The virus would magically go away come April, and if not you cold always gulp down some bleach.
That negligence is tantamount to genocide. A REAL genocide, as opposed to putting some poor radilized muslims in school…
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Any time France is involved, you know things are going to go to ****.
See I think thats were I draw the line because Alex Jones and Donald Trump were sending people to commit violent acts against others in real life. The other angle is that anyone else who is not famous wouldve been censored without a second thought for saying many of the things they said.
Tech companies were already censoring using their algorithms to display the approved content they wanted you to see.
Tbqh MSFT still maintains more of a monopoly than any of the other players. They’ve just benefitted from having already gone though antitrust.
See I feel its a proxy data gathering operation by the EU so they can track you by forcing Apple and others to share information with third parties and governments you didnt agree to share your information with.
who defines "harmful and inappropriate content" though? Sounds like China or Turkey light. Everyone who does not meet the "standards" of the governments agenda is suddenly a terrorist. Very dangerous
That’s a possibility, too, but I still think the idea is to “share” data with European competitors. Look at France’s moves against news aggregators like Google News in favor of the local news sites. It goes above and beyond.
Additionally, we’ve entered a world where governments have decided “oh, we have the power to control tech”. Case in point, the increased number of state-level bills in the US targeting the installed software on smartphones. Even if, in reality, the state doesn’t really have the clout to potentially force its rule.