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European countries should simply either block or tax the parasitic US big tech companies that insist on violating their laws and roiling their internal affairs. Promote local competition. You don’t need these toxic, retrograde companies.
@davetroy Be like Brazil. Ban X. Musk shut up about it immediately, hasn’t said a word about them since.
Agreed, the ban was short but shifted things to the side of Brazil so they were calling the shots, it proves it can be done
@zleap @gimulnautti @davetroy For now. If all of Europe and everyone else capitulate it will be a lot less possible to make a move like Brazil did.
@crazyeddie @zleap @davetroy Europe needs to funnel tax euros to development and establishment of protocols, to provide a firm ground for homegrown social media startups to grow from.
Unfortunately #eu politicians can't get their head around the fact that social media can look different than Facebook or Xitter.
This is a huge moment. And by investing in open-source backbones & protocols European digital souvereignty could be guaranteed.
But it needs to be built, not falling from US heavens.
@gimulnautti @crazyeddie @zleap @davetroy
The dumb lack of imagination is very real, which is why the broligarchs waking them up from their stupor are doing us a favour. But tax euros are few, overstretched and not collected by the EU, but by member states. What "Europe" can & should do ASAP is fix the fragmentation that makes leveraging private money for innovative projects so much harder. They've at least started on the 28th jurisdiction for startups, Capital Markets Union next (inchallah...)