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Europe Is in Danger of Regulating Its Tech Market Out of Existence (archive.ph)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml to c/technology@lemmygrad.ml

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This is what happens when you rely on American tech companies. Apple is pulling shit with Europe, the home of "civilisation", that feels like it's straight out of a stupid reality show over regulations regarding sideloading and privacy. And clowns like this will regurgigate the dumbest and the most worn-out libertarian shit in first tier media outlets.

Tbh I don't get the point behind GDPR. Is it genuinely meant to ensure privacy to some extent or is it just some form of protectionism against American tech companies?

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[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (16 children)

The real problem is not this regulation, the problem is that while Europe has a tech market it functionally doesn't have its own tech sector. Europe is entirely dependent on American tech especially in digital platforms. We don't have our own social media platforms, we don't have our own version of Google or Amazon... ~~Europe doesn't even have its own version of GPS which makes it dependent on tech that essentially belongs to the US military~~. This is so stupid that it boggles the mind, it means giving up your digital sovereignty to another country. If Europe had its own tech sector then it could force that sector to change the way they do things to abide by European regulations, but as is US tech can just choose to no longer do business in Europe if they don't feel like following the regulations. Europe can't shut them down or nationalize them because all of these companies are American. Europe has been digitally colonized by the US, and we saw with that ridiculous crash a week ago where that gets you.

[–] Pili@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Europe doesn't even have its own version of GPS which makes it dependent on tech that essentially belongs to the US military.

Europe does have Galileo actually.

[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 months ago (4 children)

And who even uses it?

[–] Orcocracy@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You, when you’re looking at Google Maps or whatever other mapping software you use. They’ve all been compatible with Galileo, Glossnas, Beidou, and GPS for many years. But a mapping app tends to not tell the user which brand of satellite they’re using at any given time.

[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Alright, i stand corrected.

But just as a thought experiment: say the US decides tomorrow to cut Europe off from American GPS satellites. Could Europe still function only relying on their own satellite network? I'm not just talking about individual navigation apps, i'm talking about European airlines, European militaries (in this scenario let's say NATO doesn't exist and Europeans actually have armies and aren't just isn't glorified hosts for American bases), etc.

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