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Re:E.U.’S New Digital Czar: ‘Most Powerful Regulator of Big ... by d3ckard on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @06:38AM (#20938486)
Yeah, because professional technologists are doing such a great job in US. Proliferation of monopolies, privacy scandals and elections meddling are primary examples of how great it’s going. Not to mention your companies are basically demanding tax breaks to actually pay tax at all. Woohoo, greatest democracy on the planet.
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Re:E.U.’S New Digital Czar: ‘Most Powerful Regulator of Big ... by ernst_klim on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @07:05AM (#20938670)
> Proliferation of monopolies, privacy scandals and elections meddling are primary examples of how great it’s going. Not to mention your companies are basically demanding tax breaks to actually pay tax at all.

All of these can be found in EU, the same regulatory capture, retarded copyright laws pushed by media industry, blatant nepotism (German officials lobbying for Gazprom, Deutsche Bank bribing Russian officials buying deals by giving good positions to Russian officials' children while evading taxes) etc.

The only difference is that IT is a scorched field in EU, so no regulatory capture in this domain.

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