EU pushes ahead with Big Tech antitrust enforcement

It is fascinating how sentiment on here has changed in the last few months. If you look back on any of the many threads on this in the last year you see a much more staunch defence of the tech companies. The world sure has changed

I support it in general because regardless of the origin of the business, if it has significant power to control the market, this power has to be removed. However, what I am concerned with more, and this is not being discussed at all in the mainstream, is forcing the companies to offer adequate support. If one of these megaplatforms have a bug that prevents a person from using them, there is no sane way to contact a live human for support and there is no requirement for them to address that bug in a timely manner. So, on one hand, their aim is to get the whole world onto their platform in their specific market segment, but on the other hand, they are not kept liable when people get deplatformed.

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There are US companies benefiting of big tech antitrust enforcement. For example, Apple opening up their ecosystem could be good news for Garmin and Bose. Since there are more tech companies in US it means that fighting antitrust could still be a win for US.

This could lead to more actions by the Trump admin administration against European countries.<p>Not anti-trust but Cook called Trump to complain about the Irish tax outcome where Apple has to pay something like $14b<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;cj4d75zl212o" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.bbc.com&#x2F;news&#x2F;articles&#x2F;cj4d75zl212o</a><p>What happens if tech companies, long seemingly supporting Democrats are wooed by Trump with promises of bullying Europe with more tariffs to stop them from going after American companies.<p>This would result in tech companies supporting Republicans due to the finanical benefit while controlling the messaging on their platforms<p>For example &quot;Instagram and Threads will start recommending political content to users in the US.&quot; After a few years of either limiting it or providing an option(? Unsure)

At this point, weakening any American tech company really is a matter of data sovereignty for Europe. That may not be the main reason all this started, but I think recent months have underscored Europe&#x27;s need, and supercharged Europe&#x27;s determination in this regard. I&#x27;d expect significant changes in EU policies regarding tech companies going forward. Mostly calibrated to decrease American dominance in the sector.

Yes!