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Comment by u8080

9 days ago

Idk, europeans saying thing like "It's hard to compete with TooBigTech when they are being anti-competitive" implying EU companies are not anti-competitive and EU government is not extremely protectionist.

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palata  9 days ago

> europeans saying thing like

Where did I say I was European?

> implying EU companies are not anti-competitive and EU government is not extremely protectionist

Anti-competitive behaviours from TooBigTech are well documented, and they are regularly fined for that. I'm sure it happens from EU companies, but it has less impact given that the software industry is almost entirely dominated by US companies.

Now I can't remember the last time the EU threatened the US to prevent them from regulating EU companies?

Also are you aware that pretty much all governments in the EU rely on the US monopolies? I wouldn't call that "extremely protectionnist". As compared to e.g. the US banning Huawei or TikTok or DJI.

  • u8080  9 days ago

    I mean, EU has some de-facto BigTech giants like SAP which are on same anti-competitive side. It just happened that US was quicker and more successful in various areas including software.

    EU tactics on protectionism is creating legislative framework to apply tariffs to competing imports(i.e. import taxes and quotas(TARIC, etc), ecology-related fees, subsidies for local industries, restricting imports of goods for private citizens by postal limits and others)

    • palata  8 days ago

      I am not sure what you are trying to say. My whole point is that regulations are required for a sane market.

      The fact that the US wins because they don't play by the same rules does not mean that it is fair.

      And the fact that the US bans Chinese tech when they do to the US what the US does to the rest of the world shows that the US doesn't find it fair either. It's just easier to accept an unfair situation when we benefit from it.