The Trump administration’s pressure on European regulators is having an impact, with fewer restrictions on Big Tech and canceled measures.
  • poVoq@slrpnk.netMEnglish
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    7 months ago

    This is a misreading of the situation, but I guess it makes for a better headline?

    The GDPR etc. only came to be due to a specific political constellation where progressive privacy advocates and nationalistic forces formed an uneasy coalition. But now the political balance has shifted and the respondible EU commissioner has also changed.

    Basically what we see now is that the nationalistic forces have rejoined with the neo-liberal ones that promise that if the EU just deregulates the sector hard enough there will be EU based big-tech to compete with the US based ones. This is of course total bollocks and an EU based big-tech wouldn’t be significantly better than an US or China based one, but it gets the nationalistic fraction’s support.

    • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.orgEnglish
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      7 months ago

      This is of course total bollocks and an EU based big-tech wouldn’t be significantly better than an US or China based one

      “Better” isn’t the right term here.

      Note the difference: Trillions of bucks flowing to California, or Trillions of bucks flowing into European pockets.