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companies leaving [will] result in technological stagnation, due to our inability to compete with global markets

on the contrary, companies leaving will allow and force us to develop european alternatives that can actually compete in europe. they don't need to compete on the global market.

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Exactly. I’m not worried about this. If Meta leaves, it just opens the door for European alternatives, which means platforms that are easier to oversee. What concerns me more is the AI industry, but business here isn’t backed by private capital, so the willingness to take risks is much lower than in the US, which is a shame.

When it comes to Meta or any other dopamine-driven platform, European society would only gain from their absence. Anyone would do really.