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Break up Ticketmaster!
Okay, Orangeman! Now it’s getting personal…
Amen!!!
Should be two pronged - tariffs on cloud and other services while fostering competitive local alternatives. While it’s possible knock up a cloud out of anything there is nothing in Europe as coherent as the offerings by Amazon, Google or Microsoft. And there should be.
Yes PLEASE
For now it’s a lot of mights and very few dids. Just make companies that are that huge to pay higher taxes to operate in the EU. It’s not a tariff is contributing their fair share to the social network of the EU. And ffs, reign in any country allowing these companies to operate in tax havens in the EU
Maybe fix the Irish tax loophole first?
Exactly. Never do anything until you can do anything all at once. If you can’t wave a magic wand and solve all problems everywhere, it’s best to just keep the status quo.
Exquisitely sardonic sir, well done. And yeah, deserved response to that tired kind of whataboutism.
Or, you know, do two things at once. It’s not uneard of for a huge governmental entity to be able to do that. And it’s stupid to repaint the ceiling when you have a leaky roof.
A slap on the wrist for two of the tech giants is great progress. I would consider this a start, but not done yet.
The linked article supports this as well:
Tove Maria Ryding from the European Network on Debt and Development, an association of trade unions and non-governmental organisations, welcomed the ECJ’s decision but stressed “our tax problem is more than just one rotten apple”.
She said the case addressed tax matters dating back over 20 years and was “a perfect illustration of the chaotic corporate tax system we have”.
“What we urgently need is a fundamental reform that can give us a tax system that is fair, effective, transparent and predictable," she said.
Do it, the USA lost their industrial base to the shareholders and services is all they have. Let it rip!
FUCKING DO IT
I was afraid of this… I support it but don’t need it. Oh well… Fuck the USA anyway!
Good on you EU! I think a majority of the world would like to see Big Tech brought down a couple hundred pegs.
lol holy shit do it. DO IT. This will utterly FUCK the profit model of more things than I can quickly explain
Let’s just hope they move fast and aren’t afraid to break things.
Sounds like a good idea, hit them where it hurts! I left Big Tech a while ago, but if the EU can hit them with tariffs and hurt people like Zuck and (F)Elon, awesome!
Newspapers, magazines, TV, film, movies, broadcasts are all regulated nationally and internationally
The same should be done for corporate social media companies who basically deliver all or most news content and information to people everywhere today.
The current state of the world is like being in the 1900s and only having six major newspapers in the world owned by big corporations and none of the content they publish or share is regulated or controlled.
Why not legalising piracy for media made in the US? Imagine if all movies and TV series were suddenly public domain in Europe…
All it takes is a critical mass of users to make their own Facebook. A continental divide seems like a good place.
When America sends their users, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending trolls, shitposters, influencers. They’re bringing Ben Shapiro and Alex Jones. And some, I assume, are good users.
Edit: The original quote (about Mexicans) is from 2015. Feel old yet?
