- The EU parliament should first call Sophie Zhang to explain to the world how facebook is the dream platform for totalitarians around europe to control their own people
- Vestager should have acted on this a decade ago. But like most eurocrats they think that fines are going to solve the problem; they won't
The US understandably does not want to ruin the unbelievable unfair advantage that big tech has vs the old media, their legal immunity. Big tech is the US's golden goose , and with it they can control entire governments so what's not to love. But EU has no excuse for having allowed itself to become an intenrnet pariah
I disagree. I think any regulation would hit them the least compared to other internet platforms. This is confirmed by internal leaks as Facebook even wants regulatory capture. Mrs. Haugen and Mrs. Zhang probably don't have information relevant to the problem at all and basically suggested creating a ministry of truth. This is counter productive and backwards.
There is a trust crisis in media, but Facebook isn't the reason. Wrong information on the internet (oh no!) also isn't the reason. You would have been laughed at by 12 year olds if you suggested that 10 years ago. Worse, the 12 year olds would be correect...
The EU is an internet pariah because it would not allow for free platforms to be created. We have an encrusted media landscape that immediately destroys anything it doesn't really understand. I don't want that to continue and free information is a way to work against that. I have no interest on any EU body to dictate truth. That would only be sad.
Aside from worse legal protection of platforms, I think part of it just has to do with convenience and in this case language specifically. In the beginning it was about the right place and time for a social network to be successful. There were more at first, but due to their nature people concentrated on a few big ones.
English has a low barrier for Europeans, it is significantly higher for Russians or Chinese. So many Europeans just used platforms of the Anglosphere. It made content even more interesting because there was more from different cultures. Of course I feel sorry for the Anglos that so many people can understand them now, but at least they have advantages for platforms like this.
I dont think so. the vast majority of people in my country and most european countries use facebook etc in their local language with their local friends. It's no different really with windows: They are also everywhere but russia doesnt have its own competitor.
- Vestager should have acted on this a decade ago. But like most eurocrats they think that fines are going to solve the problem; they won't
The US understandably does not want to ruin the unbelievable unfair advantage that big tech has vs the old media, their legal immunity. Big tech is the US's golden goose , and with it they can control entire governments so what's not to love. But EU has no excuse for having allowed itself to become an intenrnet pariah
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