EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech
EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech
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EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech
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If this raises prices of Netflix, Gamepass, ... I will immediately cancel them rather than pay the hike.
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Highly recommend replacing those with a Usenet subscription!
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Cancel them anyway.
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What about Steam?
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The year of GOG lmao
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Yes!!! I’ve been wanting this! Let’s put costs on all the US apps and sites - that way a lot of Europeans will actually start using the amazing European alternatives that we already have, keeping our money in Europe for our own companies to invest with, to become even greater! I’m all in! 💪🏻
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Americans would love some Elon and other scumbag free alternatives beyond what we have now.
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Having GDPR protections by default instead of having to trick companies into thinking they shouldn't abuse your rights? Yes please.
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Please, finally do that!
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Fucking do it. Those apps are hot air. No one needs them. There's no problem replacing them.
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How do we tariff 'free' apps like Facebook and Instagram?
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Tariff the advertisers. Also, strictly enforce GDPR.
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We tariff the ads.
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Do it!
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Give money to open source projects, invest in distributed infrastructure, kick out big tech.
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The US is a failed state and the rest of the world needs to treat it as such
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The European leaders don't have the balls to impose tariffs on Big Tech!
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If Europeans counterparts to Google, ms and apple existed, yes. They need to be offered companies, which can rely on open source in the end, not just "open source" as an alternative, which is often a mantra here: they understand nothing about tech!
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Yes please
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I'm sure the EU won't insta-react like a five year old, and if it reacts this is the thing I'm expecting. Smart stuff.
So get your act together EU!!
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No, not tariffs. Tariffs would make Europeans pay more.
Hit the US where it hurts: intellectual property. The US forced the rest of the world to adopt its absurd intellectual property protections as a condition of getting tariff-free access to the US markets. Now that the US has reneged on that, the EU should restore rights to EU citizens that were restricted with these new laws.
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LOL Trump wanted to keep this "trade war" to goods only. He never mentioned the surplus US has in services trade. This will really hurt US below the belt.
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I don't get it. Why do Americans want to hurt themselves so badly? Shooting yourself in the foot? "Nah men, that's for children." Russian roulette? "Boooring, why just 1 bullet in the chamber when you can do 6 instead."
It's so obvious how your current president with his clown army is set to destroy the country yet the American people were all for it and voted him back, after a horrible first term. Everyone is in support of mega corps and the ultra rich and don't care it will come out of their own pocket.
And now you're in support of the EU to ban American services, something which would hurt the country and everyone in it, making it harder for you to get a job, pay for groceries, get proper health care and education, waving away your human rights and freedom of expression.
I'm a European, to me it looks like the movie Idiocracy was an understatement when I look at the US. It's a country filled with masochist toddlers who argue about how big their graves should be while digging those themselves with lightning speed.
I get it, you're unhappy with the current situation, but supporting the ones who will hurt you, is going to hurt you. If I was in your situation I'd say "yeah EU, I get it, but it will be at the cost of the American people because those mega corps will take their loss out of our paychecks and welfare."
But you do you! Good luck mate!
Kinky