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Of course this affects american companies, as the whole thing is primarily designed as a weapon for the EU against US dominance in the consumer space. The big problem for the EU is that consumers actually choose the best product in a free market (the internet of free services), and they overwhelmingly decided to use the US-based options. All the framing as "nefarious" is propaganda, consumers choose freely the option…
I suppose we fundamentally disagree on a few things here so I won't go into a discussion about the motivation of this law (which I as a EU citizen support). I do however want to leave a note on this quote here: > All the framing as "nefarious" is propaganda, consumers choose freely the option they value the most. Customers cannot choose freely. I'm a customer and I cannot chose certain products because they do not ex…
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> I think this a good development because it finally makes certain backroom deals visible.
As a German, I'd like to have more transparency into the backroom deals that are done in Berlin and Brussels.
But this won't happen unfortunately, and they'll try to regulate IT to death to the benefit of local corporations who failed again and again providing the consumer with as valuable producs as their US counterparts.