Zuckerberg urges Trump to stop the EU from fining US tech companies
Zuckerberg urges Trump to stop the EU from fining US tech companies
Comparing the bloc’s antitrust penalties to tariffs, the Meta boss argued that Brussels is “screwing with” American industry.
Could someone tell him that Trump is not the president of the EU? Not our circus not our fascists.
If these companies aren't subject to EU fines then I don't see why they should be allowed to operate in the EU
Lmao, how would Trump ever do that?
If you want to sell your product/service in the EU, you comply with EU laws and if you don't comply you pay the fines. And if you continue to not comply your product/service will be banned and you will not be able to sell it legally anymore. And in case of a webservice like Facebook the site can get blocked real fast.
He’ll do what he already wants to do, drive a between the US and the EU by adding tariffs and just generally finding Europe’s weak points and sticking his finger in them til either the EU rolls back its laws, or he completely fractures the relationship. I’m guessing tech companies don’t want to fracture the relationship because they still want to be able to sell their shit there.
Maybe he'll try to annex the whole EU instead of just Greenland
I have a few tinfoil hat theories. You know, the kinda shit you come up with trying to plan for the worst.
One of them is that all these villainous world superpowers are going to get together and basically redraw the world. Eg: US will say they won't defend S. Korea, Taiwan, or Ukraine if they can get Canada and Greenland, that kinda shit.
And there's nothing to stop them
I'd say that's crazy and never going to happen, but looking at the past 10 years have taught me I have no idea what can happen and what can't.
Alternatively, we, in the EU could just... Stop using Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok or whatever being used to harvest our data?
Really, governments should make and moderate their own social media services, the basic concept is a great communication medium for everything from like reporting potholes to promoting blood donation drives to quickly sharing updates during emergency weather situations etc., the kinds of basic citizen service stuff governments should be doing, but when profit notices creep in we get all this data harvesting and Skinner-box algorithmic manipulation that ruins things
I hate it how Facebook is a better source of public safety information than some government websites.
If we need to travel the snowy highways you can get better updates on the conditions than the official highways website.
Where I live the government does all this already.
Can Canada get on board with that too
Can the U.S. also.., oh goddamnit
I don't know, can it?
The only way to find out is to try!
Zuckerberg? I 'ardly know 'er!
I thought Facebook was an Irish company :')
How exactly would Trump stop that? He doesn't even know.
Am I allowed to say that I trust US Big Tech Corps more than my government and my police officers? Meta still is more ethical (even with the DEI programs cutoff and all the rest) than some corrupt governments.
That is an insane proposition. You are trusting your elected officials less than a billionaire that sees you at best as a cow to milk. I cannot comprehend such a thought .
You're allowed to say it, even believe it. But your analysis is faulty. Please add a little context and youll see why. Trust to do what? Corrupt with what goals? It seems you have no idea...