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Re:Spanish Wikipedia also shuts down in protest at proposed ... by throwawayee on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @08:02PM (#17460073)
> Now Europeans all use US services. Amazon, Ebay, Facebook, Google, Dropbox, AirBnB, Uber...

Mobile is very popular now. Most of the mobile hardware is China-based. Now most Europeans and Americans use Chinese hardware. Is the US and EU falling behind?

Entrepreneurs will look for business given the current laws and opportunities. The data-mining business is just not a way to go now in the EU, with all the legal overhead.

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Re:Spanish Wikipedia also shuts down in protest at proposed ... by Zhenya on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @08:11PM (#17460103)
Chinese hardware with US based OS and mostly US based services.
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Re:Spanish Wikipedia also shuts down in protest at proposed ... by greglindahl on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @08:21PM (#17460129)
And even US-built chips. For quite a while iPhones with final assembly in China had processors built by Samsung in Austin, Texas, using semiconductor fab equipment built in Germany and the US.
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Re:Spanish Wikipedia also shuts down in protest at proposed ... by chronic821 on Thursday July 05, 2018 @06:10AM (#17462058)
> Is the US and EU falling behind?

Yes. And also in AI deployment.

Source: Am American.

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