Comment by boroboro4
10 days ago
I think there are two aspects of it, one political - we didn't have democracies with strong leaders for quite some time, but I don't believe it's inherent to it.
Another is economical - with tech (absolute) free-market would for sure benefit the biggest player. I don't believe in absolute free-market economy anyway (and we don't have it), and I think EU (and other countries) should protect their (tech) businesses. For example EU can start with above mentioned service tax, Trump started with tariffs anyway.
Side note - Russia had very strong domestic tech for a long time, and one of the reasons I believe was the fact it's a big market mixed with different language. I don't think dictatorship played as big of a role.
Information warfare is real and can leverage all the learnings of the past. Algorithms designed to show you only specific content. One sided points of view. Nothing more than propaganda. Tools of information warfare. This is why you can’t just blindly go with whatever Big Tech proposal.
The EU has some of the brightest minds in the world. You can do this.