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[-] Contend6248@feddit.de 114 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If we had actual IT giants in Europe, this would look very different.

I've seen how the car industry in Germany only got a slap on the wrist because of Dieselgate and even got the chance to send out advertisement payed by the government.

I feel like the only reason stuff like this gets pushed so hard is because we try to slow down the current IT giants until we get our shit together.

I'm glad that we do it, but i wouldn't say we are better than anyone else.

[-] isles@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the honest take, a lot of people get caught up in the idea that if an organization does something that aligns with them, they are good or doing it for the same reasons.

[-] thehatfox@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

There is a lot of protectionism at the heart of the EU. They are quite happy to heavily regulate Big Tech when it’s not based in their own market. Unfortunately they don’t have quite the same passion for nurturing the European tech industry as much as stifling the foreign ones.

They are it purely fighting these fights for the greater good, or they wouldn’t also be pushing things like the recent browser certificate debacle.

[-] hubobes@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

I mean we have SAP but they are probably not affected by this law.

[-] Minarble@aussie.zone 16 points 1 year ago

SAP

All my homies hate SAP

[-] Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah because dieselgate was a travesty and all companies have a moral obligation to find ways around the idiocy of the US EPA as they actively make our cars more harmful to the environment by writing poorly thought out rules that encourage larger vehicles as well as completely failing to understand how to calculate diesel emissions for vehicles in a sensible manner.

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 year ago

Nah, it still would be much harder.

Because the EU exists out of many different countries with each their own government.

To lobby something through you have to bribe the majority of them, instead of just one.

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