Once a model for the world, the EU’s rulemaking machine has faltered under the weight of its own ambition

Once a model for the world, the EU’s rulemaking machine has faltered under the weight of its own ambition.

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  • Arkthos@pawb.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Good read. The Brussels effect seems to be facing the same problems the rest of the EU is facing - increased pressure from the outside.

    On the tech side I think it’s mostly that tech giants can now use the US as an instrument to apply pressure more than it is EU regulatory overreach on AI. Yeah, the EU has failed to manifest their own tech giants, but I’d argue this is a good thing because holy shit the tech giants are a cancerous blob on society.

    • plyth@feddit.orgEnglish
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      2 months ago

      holy shit the tech giants are a cancerous blob on society.

      This can only be changed if they can be controlled. Hardly possible if somebody else owns them.

    • CAVOK@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Very true on the outside pressure, especially now. On the point of tech giants I kind of agree but not quite, we should try to build our own, industry up, but regulate them to prevent the dominance of the big three US cloud providers for example. The problem here is that tech scales very well, so the bigger you are the better your services.