For now it’s a lot of mights and very few dids. Just make companies that are that huge to pay higher taxes to operate in the EU. It’s not a tariff is contributing their fair share to the social network of the EU. And ffs, reign in any country allowing these companies to operate in tax havens in the EU
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Should be two pronged - tariffs on cloud and other services while fostering competitive local alternatives. While it's possible knock up a cloud out of anything there is nothing in Europe as coherent as the offerings by Amazon, Google or Microsoft. And there should be.
hell, it's about time
This in combination with deregulating the single market and allowing EU tech startup to thrive would finally give birth to real competitors on our continent
GoEU
deregulating
Nope. Nope-nopety-nope, leave this american bullshit where it belongs.
Pardon my ignorance but what does deregulating the single Market mean?
There is a big push from EU at the moment to reduce "red tape" to make it easier for business, see for example mastodon post from EC a few hours ago: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/114280068967975617
Yeah and make it 200%
Show this to Varoufakis.
Don’t use tariffs. Legalize jailbreaking and adversarial interop instead. Disregard American DRM.
And legalize piracy of US-created media content such as movies and TV series.
The real money is in AWS, azure,GCP. No one cares about your iPad. Tariff the big 3 hosting providers and see how quickly shit hits the fan.
Bonus: It might make some companies move to non-US hosters, making their data way safer.
I've switched to Hetzner and I'm super happy. Fuck DigitalOcean and their ever increasing prices.
I'm at Hetzner für 10-15 years now.
Put a tariff on the companies that was pro-Trump, and who was at his inauguration.
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Maybe fix the Irish tax loophole first?
Exactly. Never do anything until you can do everything all at once. If you can't wave a magic wand and solve all problems everywhere, it's best to just keep the status quo.
Or, you know, do two things at once. It's not uneard of for a huge governmental entity to be able to do that. And it's stupid to repaint the ceiling when you have a leaky roof.
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Yes. Tech billionaires are the ones who stood behind Trump proudly on inauguration day, so let's start using Canadian/European options. Plenty of them match what those tech companies offer anyway.
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