EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, approved

Re:EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, a... by toyg on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @12:56PM (#32168644)

I reckon this particular objection actually shows the forma mentis of developers. It seems like a lot of them feel like they are temporarily-embarrassed megacorps, worrying about things that will never really apply to them.

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Re:EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, a... by MichaelCollins on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @01:25PM (#32169140)

Exactly. Worrying about your company "suddenly" crossing the €75 billion market cap threshold... that's the sort of problem most people would give an arm and a leg to have.

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Re:EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, a... by mortenjorck on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @08:23PM (#32174252)

> temporarily-embarrassed megacorps

This is a very perceptive extension of the famous Steinbeck quote. The sentiment is certainly not limited to the blue-collar labor class of which the original referred.

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Re:EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, a... by charcircuit on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @02:48PM (#32170409)

It's possible to have an opinion on laws that you don't effect oneself. If a country had a law that if a company reaches $1 billion lifetime revenue that it gets repossessed by the state I can apply my belief that stealing is bad and be against that law despite it likely never affecting me.

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Re:EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, a... by toyg on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @03:24PM (#32170873)

> It's possible to have an opinion on laws that you don't effect oneself.

Sure, and it's possible to heavily discount your opinion when compared to the hundreds of opinions of experts in antitrust law that helped shaping this legislation. This would be less the case, maybe, if this legislation actually targeted you, so your insight would be relevant; but the fact is that it doesn't.

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Re:EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, a... by charcircuit on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @05:50PM (#32172888)

Democratic societies don't decide laws based off what "experts" think is right, but instead based off what the entire populace thinks. If I was European my opinion should matter just as much as one these "experts."

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Re:EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, a... by wasmitnetzen on Thursday July 21, 2022 @05:25AM (#32177285)

Europe is, for the most part, a representative democracy, not a direct democracy. We specifically elect experts to write laws, and not have the general populace decide it.

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Re:EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, a... by fabianhjr on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @03:04PM (#32170634)

Requiring monopolistic platform megacorps to compete is similar to expropriating them. Got it.

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Re:EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, a... by charcircuit on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @05:46PM (#32172837)

I was using an extreme example to illustrate my point more clearly.

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Re:EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, a... by ROTMetro on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @03:31PM (#32170962)

I think it's more having the mindset to think externally to yourself and put yourself into users 'usecases', not personal self interest.

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Re:EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, a... by hnbad on Friday July 22, 2022 @05:08AM (#32190070)

Yeah, no. Neither systems thinking nor empathy lead to the position that megacorps should be treated exactly the same way as smaller companies. If anything, the exact opposite is the case.

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