Biden urged to stop EU ‘unfairly’ targeting American tech::5 out of 6 ‘gatekeepers’ are US-based so regulators across pond are just being mean to us, say lawmakers
Maybe that’s because American corporations suck, wouldn’t it be great if Biden actually enforced anti-trust laws instead of bowing down to them.
Then again, when has any American president stood up to big corporations?
Yeah, 20 years ago. That’s the problem.
That was the DoJ acting not the president.
Executive branch and judicial branch are not the same thing.
The DoJ isn’t in the judicial branch. The courts are the judicial branch. DoJ is in the executive branch because it is supposed to carry out and enforce the laws.
Ok. What about the president using the bully pulpit to call out price gouging after inflation has cooled down. Like last month. Or trying to tackle junk fees?
Shockingly, the American president does not have jurisdiction over the eu. I mean, they know this, they it’s more political hot air for nothing, and we give them the attention they want for it.
They don’t have jurisdiction. But they have other things that make them very important to the EU which can be leveraged.
Yeah, let’s do a trade war to save Google’s monopoly! That’s definitely in everyone’s interest!
Who said anything about trade war? And who said anything about everyone’s interest? That’s exactly the point, it’s not in anyone’s interest except American corporations. Ie the only interest that matters in the US.
As an American…I support the EU. Because America will always support the capitalists fucking you over, and the EU at least tries to do differently…
Yah nice to have someone on the side of consumers for once. Shame we have to look across the ocean to find them
US has the most protectionist policies west of Beijing.
And east of Beijing.
Also north of Beijing
Not south, though… Oh God, not south.
Alternative title: American Corporations rail that they can’t rampage, unchecked, across the entire globe like they can in America. They whine about this publicly to
their paid lackeysthe government.Fuck this ambiguous headline.
Maybe if US tech companies weren’t monstrous behemoths this wouldn’t be necessary
“Unfairly”
citation needed
Yeah, this has nothing to do with Biden. That said, it sounds like the rules are not being applied fairly. That said, it’s not like America has fair, consistent policies or anything…
hey you conservative fuckwad, imagine if the world didnt revolve around the corporations that feed your political coffers.
BIDEN, imagine if you were for the people. god damn i hate this old republican.
Read the title again.
Biden didn’t do anything.
He was “urged” to do something by someone else.
The title can be read either way.
Biden urged [someone]
Biden [was] urgedNot to mention the way “gatekeepers” is used inside the article to refer to the media companies that are being targeted, and not the EU gatekeeping those companies’ practices within the EU. This story is designed to be misleading all around.
Yeah, it’s shitty, I understood it the same way at first
congresscritters
Did they really use this term? Lol
dude, my bad, thanks!
i stand by my opinion he and the democratic party are really the republicans at this point. there are a handful of democrats and a room full of fascists.
No Republican would’ve fought for Amtrak expansion as hard as Biden has.
yeah the one anecdote on one issue doesnt make up for 40+ years of democratic party’s conservatism
Just out of curiosity, what do you think the mainstream repubs and the MAGA people are then, by comparison?
if it walks like a fascist and talks like a fascist and the entire party platform epitomizes fascist ideals, youre a fascist.
So, you just think they’re all fascists then? What does fascism actually mean to you?
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Operation Sealion was a German WW2 plan for an invasion of the British Isles. What’s it mean these days?
how about the textbook, which fits perfectly
utahoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy
I don’t know about perfectly, I don’t see the hallmark ultranationalism in Biden, and he also seems to care about election results, which makes dictator a little harder to say. I also don’t see force being used to suppress his opposition, since Trump is still free and able to defend himself. Few others, but those are the big ones.
This is just sideways related, but considering how difficult is making anything because of the word “ITAR” it is absolutely normal EU is trying to go away as fast as possible from EEUU tech and companies and is regulating their behaviour here.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Bipartisan congressional representatives have sent a letter to President Joe Biden, demanding action over what they claim is the unfair targeting of US tech companies by the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA).
The letter [PDF], signed by 22 congresscritters, complains that, out of six gatekeepers designated earlier this year under the DMA, five are based in the US and none in the EU.
Gatekeepers, per the European Commission, are companies that “provide an important gateway between businesses and consumers in relation to core platform services.”
The representatives also took umbrage that large Chinese tech companies like Tencent, Alibaba, and Huawei weren’t included as gatekeepers, “despite the fact that they are competing aggressively with US firms in the EU and other markets.”
Samsung, having no other skin in the game, wasn’t otherwise included, while Alphabet and Microsoft’s other core platform services meant they stayed on the gatekeeper list.
“We strongly urge you to advocate for American companies and workers by insisting that EU policymakers administer and enforce their digital policies fairly,” the representatives asked of Biden, seemingly oblivious to the fact that, of the ten largest tech companies in the world, six of them are headquartered in the United States.
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EU: I’m gonna target even harder
