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> but I don't see many companies stepping up to provide competing services Maybe because the US dropped most of its anti trust regulations, leading to ridicul
by Galanwe 3mo ago
> but I don't see many companies stepping up to provide competing services
Maybe because the US dropped most of its anti trust regulations, leading to ridiculously monopolistic practices such as "acquire everything that may be threatening".
- bigfishrunning 3mo agoWhen was the last time you heard about a European cellphone manufacturer, or social media network, or web browser being acquired by an American monopoly? I can only think of Nokia, purchased by microsoft in 2014. Those phones ran windows CE before that even, so you could hardly have avoided the american tech industry. All I'm trying to say is, it's impossible for Europeans to both A) be on the internet and B) avoid the US tech industry.
- Hundredth0006 3mo agoNokia phones ran mostly on SymbianOS
- bigfishrunning 3mo agoSorry, I stand corrected
- trumpdong 3mo agoIn the EU there is the threat of jail time if a user of your service does something bad and you haven't completed the necessary bureaucracy to be immune to it. This is the opposite of the US. See for example pissmail.