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Comment by MaxHoppersGhost

16 hours ago

So free in Europe you guys don't even have a legitimate tech industry. Anyone who wants to build comes to the US.

So, free if you're a VC?

Funny how China leads in most tech areas now.

Turns out letting monopoly capital control your government policy leads to short term gains at the expense of long term viability. Maybe the VCs can make some money off government surveillance and defense contracts before being completely eclipsed?

https://www.aspi.org.au/news/aspis-critical-technology-track...

  • That’s supposed to be worse than the government controlling everything like in China?

    • it gets fun when you raise "government" is a variable that can be substituted with values that are not necessarily "Congress" or "the president"

      China calls its government a State Council, Russia calls theirs a Duma, and the USA calls its one Microsoft. (Or Oracle, or Disney, or S&P 500...)

Ignoring your weird correlation between freedom and tech. Not gonna google European tech before you comment?