You have things like the EuroStack, which is Europe’s response to the explicit merger of American tech with American state policy. Frankly, I think that’s much better than taxing or regulating American tech. Just sideline it. Make it irrelevant. Don’t try and fix it. I mean, American tech is irredeemable. Just make it part of the scrap heap of history.
I like this option.
He points out very reasonably that the key to it is scrapping the American forced article 6 of the EU charter, which is basically their DMCA. That’s what would let Europeans legally reverse engineer these services to import data/process/apis/etc into the new EU stack. It would also instantly allow all “right to repair” efforts, as that law is what stops them.
Sounds like win-win really.
For everyone but the trillion dollar companies that own the US government.
If we Americans can’t sensibly regulate ourselves, seems like the reasonable thing to do.
If we Americans
It’s not you, it’s Big Tech. There’s no use bundling yourself with greedy billionaires, and it may actually harm you in the long run, IMO.
Combat the inner enemies in the ways you can. You are not the one.
We also can’t be bothered not to use their shitty tech. From the moment I wanted a Gmail replacement to the moment I signed up for a new service was like 6 months.
As an American, I fully and enthusiastically agree. Hell, if you let me, I’ll move there and lend my expertise to the effort.
It is relatively easy to find an English speaking tech job in Germany. If you have a university degree, then you can get the EU Blue Card.
Yeah, we should still tax it though.
I was going to say… Is it even worth saving in it’s current form?
You start with what you can change, like your own website, remove newsletter popups, use gdpr friendly analytics so that you don’t need a cookie banner.
Practice what you preach.
And a button shouldn’t need js to work.
It’s kinda a good thing. Addons can easily deal with these popups. Like some news websites that cover the page with “to continue reading, do this”, when I can just use “remove overlays” addon and keep reading. Dynamic content for the win.
Too late. At this point, you need to fix it.
