[oytis]

EU doesn't have enough money to just buy the competition

[joe_mamba]

EU had more money than China yet shipped fewer dominant software platforms

[oytis]

China doesn't allow foreign social media on their territory at all. US had one for a short time, then panicked and forced them to sell. EU can neither buy American platforms, nor does it want to build a great firewall of Europe, so it's trying to find other ways to get in control

[joe_mamba]

> nor does it want to build a great firewall of Europe

Oh yes they are. Just more stealthily via ID doxing age verification and speech censorship regulations.

[oytis]

That's a huge stretch. Age verification is a worrying, but a wordwide trend, several US states introduced it as well.

The first country to introduce it was Australia, which is only related to Europe by participating in Eurovision

[joe_mamba]

>That's a huge stretch.

It isn't.

> but a wordwide trend

And that's supposed to make it ... FINE?

LIke "Hey, the entire world is becoming an authoritarian surveillance state, what do you expect the EU to do? NOT do it?"

YES! That's what I expect. I don't want the EU becoming China but with a blue flag.

[dudisubekti]

Yeah money is just a fancy paper if you can't translate it to actual productivity.

[m00dy]

money and credit are different things. EU has credit.