EU countries are taking a different approach. They’re passing regulation that isn’t entirely feasible to comply with and assigning large % global revenue fines for non compliance. Their plan is to just skim revenue and benefit rather than banning.

The FTC that said they couldn’t do shit about the internet, cellular, or media oligopoly due to lack of funding? Okay. Lina Khan’s FTC has been an absolute joke.

This is just another one in a series of the EU being pissed that they don’t have any domestic tech companies worth a damn. The EC has been open about their envy of US tech and how it motivates their legislating in the past.

Hardware tech, sure… but that was primarily for economic reasons (cheap labor). That’s not the same as forced technology transfer though.

Meanwhile, the US’ strategy is trying to bludgeon its own tech companies to death and slam them in the media. Seems like a winning approach in conjunction with this.

Hindustan Times? 🧐 Seems legit lmao.

He didn’t really have any material impact on ChatGPT. Misleading headline.

This is probably the most thoughtful take I’ve read in this. People forget how tilted the mainstream media is against big tech.

The EU is putting up a ton but it’s primarily intended to target US tech companies and the EU has come out before saying that they’re doing it to “level the playing field” and to help “the next Google to be founded in Europe.” It’s basically thinly veiled protectionism.

The US isn’t as aggressive, though the current FTC is pretty hawkish to domestic tech companies. Congress is primarily in a jawbone posture at the moment but that’s still a sharp contrast to other countries that heavily protect (and in some cases take active measures like stealing tech) for domestic tech companies.

I do think the GOP is maybe slightly more aggro toward tech. I think it’s primarily intended because they want ownership on online platforms that’ll allow them to control speech. You see a ton of grandstanding from the left intended to target tech companies too (just look at what Warren, Klobuchar, and others have said/done in the space). It’s kind of like comparing “Wants to obliterate and control” to “Actively dislikes/despises”. Not sure either party is really favorable toward tech IMO.

Honestly, the US is really unique in that the government seems dead set on destroying its tech industry. The media has a ton of reason for targeting US tech (disrupted their ads model) and the general public has basically eaten it up wholesale. Every other country is desperate for (e.g. any EU country) or protective of (e.g. China) tech companies and the US seems dead set on shitting all over theirs (on both sides of the aisle).