Three reasons Europe learned to distrust Big Tech before America did
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Three reasons Europe learned to distrust Big Tech before America did
European attitudes toward digital privacy and technology regulation are dismissed in the US as technophobia. But there are distinct, historically grounded reasons why Europe has moved further and faster to regulate Big Tech: There’s the memory of the surveillance states run by the Nazis and the Stassi, the absence of a European version of Silicon Valley (with all of the Valley’s financial clout in domestic politics), and a fundamentally different idea about what personal data is and what can legitimately be done with it. Any serious analysis of transatlantic technology policy means taking these issues into account—especially as the US begins to confront its own looming day of reckoning with the power of the platform.
I think it was Edward Snowden who used the description “turnkey dictatorship” for the systems that were built.
That seemed odd in 2013. Now, it is scarily prescient.
Because everything that 'Murica embraces should be seen as something to be avoided
It’s a stupid excuse for a country that should serve as a warning rather than an example
Number 1: They’re not trustworthy.
Easier to distrust an industry when it‘s not very domestic.
Then distrust Meta and give up WhatsApp and IG.
Speak for yourselves, I knew what was up.
“But… but you will be falling behind”.
“Good”.