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The world is trying to log off U.S. tech (restofworld.org)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Countries are growing uneasy about their dependence on U.S. technology firms.

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[–] 33 points 9 months ago (9 children)

Ding ding ding

And that IS a good thing. It's great that it happened, I just wish it had happened 2 decades ago and before IT companies yeeted the fworld off a cliff into hell

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    No, now is the perfect time, because the rest of the world would get corrupt as hell. This will cause a massive leftwards shift, right around the dawn of AI.

    We don't want an AM.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    AM?

    And why would other nations get corrupt as hell without US tech? That is a weird flex

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Tech goes through phases of enshitification. Meaning, that once EU breaks free of US tech, they will try and make actual good shit for a while, but then the shit will become shittier, just like in the US. Then it will become bad shit.

    Well, shit.

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  • [+] -11 points 9 months ago (6 children)
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  • [–] 24 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    But everything was rolling, pretty goddamn great until...

    I beg to disagree there. Each year Big Tech has become more and more aggressive in taking control from us, the consumer. Microsoft with the requirements of TPM in order to install windows 11. Google with they're delaying open source releases of android, preventing apps from being installed unless it's non-cfw. All tech companies shoveling AI everywhere. John Deere with their vendor lock-in hardware.

    This needed to stop and these companies need to be reminded that "the consumer owns the hardware and that includes functional software (that does not change without the users consent)".

    Unfortunately, the U.S. Government failed it's people in defending consumer rights and tbh, the EU hasn't really done a stellar job either. However, this is certainly the" kick in pants" the EU needs (hopefully) to start to create competition against U. S. Big Tech... and the EU certainly understands that it needs to protect these small EU start-ups as they try to find their footing.

    So, I hope this results in the EU creating laws to "level the playing field". Which, I hope, actually spurs innovate and Open Standards (something Big Tech has been working hard on suppressing), which will be good for all of us (regardless, if you're in the EU, U.S., and beyond).

    You'll notice there is a lot of "hope" in these sentences. I am skeptical, but I can see how this could be "a good thing".

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    For decades there has been tension between European data protection principles and US principles that corporations should be able to monetize your data and the US government should be able to access everything. Our dependence on US tech companies had made our position weak. We should have subsidised European cloud infrastructure a long time ago.

    Especially the last few years it's been terrible how many companies and organisations have surrendered to US Big Tech. Even Dutch banks have abandoned their own excellent contactless payment system to surrender to Apple Pay and Google Wallet.

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  • [–] 20 points 9 months ago

    I mean, privacy had been getting worse for decades before Trump got in office. Mainstream tech has been on a steady decline for years, if not longer, and the privacy invasions being baked into most software have always been horrifying.

    Was it all functional? Yeah. Were there a lot of horrifying things under the hood? Also yeah.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah nah.

    Trump didn't fuck google. Trump doesn't run facebook. He didn't create dark patterns, predatory subscriptionware, he's not responsible for win 11.... this is a process that's been going for a while, and so is the detachment.

    I can't even say 100% that trump goosed the accelerator

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  • [–] -2 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    He doesn’t need to run any of those companies because those CEO dickweeds will do whatever he wants anyway.

    How do you not see that as gigantic problem?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Other way around.

    Prior to el cheeto they were facing anti trust lawsuits and regulation. Now they're not.

    All they have to do is fake the occasional reacharound and they can ride him forever.

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