The EU learned with the GDPR that onerous regulations applied to every company actually helps big tech since they can afford the army of lawyers, bureaucrats and fines involved while burdening smaller companies.
They came up with the notion of gatekeepers so new regulations only impact US big tech. So it’s interesting to now see TikTok being heavily regulated because it met the gatekeeper while Twitter goes all in on toxicity and is ignored because it is not a gatekeeper https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-google-apple-meta-microsoft-say-they-meet-eu-gatekeeper-status-2023-07-04/
Dare Obasanjo /
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2023-08-04 19:04:59
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