1y ago

Europe Is Breaking Open the Empires of Big Tech

www.wired.com

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Sorry, but wtf is that AI generated image supposed to be? A blood covered jar lid? One of those giant red Staples, "That was Easy" buttons?
- AI images in journalism make me not want to read it
  
  If they used an bad ai image, they 100% used ai to write most of it.
  Good ai images are near impossible to tell apart at glance.
it's really not IMO.
DMA is extremely reasonable and Big Tech is kicking and screaming the whole way for the stupidest, little reasons.
Windows 11 EEA edition that actually respects your choice of browser? Are you fucking kidding me?
I think Europe can't compete with the US tech firms because of many reasons so that is why they are doing it.
- Not the monopolies they hold over the tech industry.
  Or the fact they simultaneously hold more wealth than a small country, yet pay miniscule amounts of tax.
  Or the detriment to society they influence, both directly and indirectly.
  Or the fact they're intrusive ways to scrape our lives, and selling that data to thousands of "partners".
  No no... Apparently it's jealousy that's driving the EU, rather than making them accountable.
  
  Does the DMA actually do anything about that, except weakening monopolies?
- I agree that they're not able to compete, but I'm pretty sure they aren't doing it out of spite. I think they just see it as a big, monopolistic market that needs opening to competition (they have taken similar steps in other sectors as well, btw)
  
  Spotify, booking.com, Skype (formerly), Klarna, and Zalando are some examples of large European tech companies. Zalando has been trying to challenge the DSA, actually. But yeah, the majority of the largest tech companies are US based.
  
  You do know Europe has it's own stock market with hundreds of fin and big techs?
- I think this must be the new dumbest comment on Lemmy. congratulations on being it.
- It certainly helps that there isn't big money lobbying against this, so I don't think you deserve these downvotes.
  But this is very much an expression of the neoliberal ideology that the EU has in its DNA. The opposition to monopolies is one positive aspect.
  
  There is big money lobbying against this, and the AI act, and every other EU regulation.
  US firms care if they can make money in the EU and actively lobby to change legislation.
- The US would like to do the same, but they can't

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