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Re:More Speech and Fewer Mistakes by qingcharles on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @01:28PM (#42625628)
As a European I would say that Europe's governments are radically more focused on the well-being of their populations than say, the USA.

But... is it just luck or is it this Nanny-state issue that makes it very hard to think of a single major Internet destination or tech company that was born in Europe?

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Re:More Speech and Fewer Mistakes by guax on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @04:11PM (#42627537)
To me its seems that its all about cash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_Internet_compa...

The through-line is US/China with the vast majority. Eu I can only think of Spotify for non-retail.

Being in Europe I find no shortage of local versions of companies for all kinds of providers but only the large social media or platforms are outside of EU mostly in US as a rule.

The issue seems to be that saturation is real and the moat gets larger with time when companies just gobble up all their competition. How could Here maps compete with the free google maps + apples large pockets, etc. TomTom used to be much larger and European, seems to still survive but nowhere near to the size it could've otherwise.

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