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If the EU had hoped that the signing of a trade deal with the US earlier this month would usher in a period of calm, it was swiftly disappointed. Less than a week later, Donald Trump was issuing new tariff threats over the bloc’s tech rulebook, and pressuring foreign countries to end the use of digital taxes. The fact that American firms hate EU tech rules and taxes is not new. Neither is the fact that they are lobbying in Washington, Dublin, Brussels and elsewhere to make their case. But what is new is the way in which Donald Trump’s administration is backing them. Just days after the Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg visited Trump in the White House, where they discussed tech taxes, the president took to his Truth Social account to press foreign countries to change their laws. Alexandra Geese, a German Green MEP and one of the European Parliament’s lead negotiators on the EU’s flagship digital services act (DSA), said that tech CEOs have more sway than ever over the US administration. “We’re not talking classical lobbying,” she told the Business Post. “It’s a completely different order of magnitude. They want regime change in Europe, and the DSA is their obstacle.”…
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That move to Linux for “digital sovereignty” can’t come soon enough. There’s needs to be a big fat middle finger thrown at US companies
At what point do they try to outlaw FOSS entirely?
I almost didn’t even want to type that at so as to not put the idea out into the aether
Yikes I hear you. Not so sure how that could be possible though. Any university student would be screwed just for sharing their GitHub portfolio.
If the EU had hoped that the signing of a trade deal with the US earlier this month would usher in a period of calm, it was swiftly disappointed. Less than a week later, Donald Trump was issuing new tariff threats…
Well yeah, that’s how a mob works.
I don’t get it, appeasement worked so well when we did it with Hitler.
I think we’re all so ashamed they didn’t see this coming. Weak as a newborn lamb.
The problem is not that our open enemies are conspiring against us; that is predictable and even understandable. The problem is the number of idiots who sell their own well-being for slightly more comfortable (not better) technology and the false promise of a neighbor with your same skin will make your neighborhood safer
Delete Facebook, Instagram, and Xitter. Mercilessly mock and hrangue those still on it. Refuse to give personal data to any company.
Problem solved. Eventually.
Hate to be cliche…. But ‘dis is da way’
That does not work. People are bound to go against strong opinions, regardless of their accuracy.
The fact they are unhappy tells me we’re doing at least something right.
Pretty good sign that Europe is the most worker-friendly place on earth right now.
Regarding the regime change, this is the important part:
The DSA, which allows Brussels to step in over the heads of Irish and other national regulators to counter hate speech, disinformation or election interference, is seen by Zuckerberg, X owner Elon Musk and US vice-president JD Vance as censorship. “Even before the US elections, JD Vance was saying that if the EU keeps up the DSA, the US was going to pull our troops out of Nato,” Geese said. “I remember at the time I thought ‘this is completely crazy, because it’s just so over the top’. And now I’m rethinking this. And I think, well, they actually might.”
Eugh these people are insatiable; they barely pay any tax as it is.
We haven’t protested regime changes when they suited us. Now we are going to pay for it.
