Is the US about to split the internet?

Re:Is the US about to split the internet? by f6v on Friday August 07, 2020 @09:13AM (#24081397)

There’s Zalando in Germany, which sees itself as rival to Amazon, but nowhere as big. And I think it’s safe to say there’s no substantial competition in social networks space. Even though Telegram is registered in London, Durov is playing by the US rules.

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Re:Is the US about to split the internet? by phito on Friday August 07, 2020 @09:28AM (#24081555)

Zalando is only for clothes tho? Here in Belgium we have Coolblue and Bol that are decent alternatives to Amazon

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Re:Is the US about to split the internet? by ClikeX on Friday August 07, 2020 @10:45AM (#24082409)

Coolblue and Bol in the Netherlands as well. Amazon doesn't really have a big market share here.

Bol is also owned by Ahold (Albert Heijn). Which to be fair to them, is a pretty big technical powerhouse for this side of the pond. They've been developing self-checkout systems since the 80's.

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Re:Is the US about to split the internet? by ClikeX on Friday August 07, 2020 @10:47AM (#24082423)

The Netherlands used to have Hyves. Which was pretty big at the time. But it just died. After which everyone moved to Facebook.

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