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Re:France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra by Youden on Saturday September 14, 2019 @05:05PM (#20973790)
> Europe has developed a fairly anti-US-big-tech attitude recently

I don't think it's an "anti-US-big-tech attitude" so much as an aversion to companies that have repeatedly been found to break the law (be it tax, competition, privacy or otherwise).

You don't (at least I don't) really see much hostility towards Apple, Netflix or Microsoft, despite them being large US tech companies.

The only examples I can come up with for companies Europeans might be hostile towards are companies that have given Europeans reason to be hostile: Facebook (tax, privacy), Google (tax, privacy, competition), Amazon (workers' rights) or Uber (workers' rights, flagrant disregard of the law).

If European companies behaved the same way, they'd face the same consequences (feel free to give counter-examples). I think the reason you hear about American companies so much more often is because:

- They're big, so violations are big and fines are big, making them big targets and big news

- They often break the law (perhaps because they're used to operating in America, which is relatively lawless when it comes to competition and privacy), making them easy targets

- You're reading English-speaking media, so you're less likely to hear about say a mid-sized German or French company being fined

Re:France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra by throwaway744678 on Saturday September 14, 2019 @06:48PM (#20974355)
For all of the companies you mentioned: taxes. They all use either a double Irish with a Dutch sandwich, or are incorporated in a tax haven (Uber, Amazon in Luxemburg)
Re:France and Germany Agree to Block Facebook's Libra by nprateem on Saturday September 14, 2019 @05:17PM (#20973871)
And it's not just tech. See Starbucks paying sweet fanny adams in tax, etc.