Una proposta radicale: mettere le controspionazioni dell’UE sulle app di social media statunitensi
https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar1afb800d
di thealejandrotauber
Una proposta radicale: mettere le controspionazioni dell’UE sulle app di social media statunitensi
https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar1afb800d
di thealejandrotauber
26 commenti
Just ban them
Yes, please and thank you!
Tariffs on free accounts? How does this works?
This is actually a really good shout. Advertisers pay higher prices and/or the companies have to take lower profits.
This should definitely be enforced, but first, EU needs some serious European alternatives to the US social media networks.
It’s not radical at all. US social media should be taxed as it’s a gambling or ciggaretes or alcohol. It’s bad for society and should be penalized.
Put the tariffs on AWS, Azure and GPC. Give taxbreaks to European companies that invest in their own cloud platform. That is where tariffs are useful, to develop a sector that could otherwise not kick off.
Also, prohibit governments and publicly funded services from using non-EU social media.
You can’t tariff digital goods. That’s because they’re digital and not something physical that can be exported. If you buy a game from Steam, you’re downloading it from an EU server. US Social Media apps are free to use, there’s nothing to tariff. You can go after their advertising revenue but then that’s a tax, not a tariff. US social media companies are already paying all of the taxes they are legally required to pay. If you want to tax them more, then it’d require new legislations.
I wish they could be blocked. Nowadays in general just bots, people with agenda or no brains are the leads.
At the very beginning they should be at the very list fairly taxed here in Poland we have problems with that….
[https://tvpworld.com/85524786/us-envoy-warns-poland-over-proposed-digital-tax-on-tech-giants-threatens-retaliation](https://tvpworld.com/85524786/us-envoy-warns-poland-over-proposed-digital-tax-on-tech-giants-threatens-retaliation)
In other words, finally tax their asses where they do business, not just where they choose to conveniently put their headquarters.
They’ll yell and threaten, but in the end: “market-of-450-million-consumers”. There are cases where this argument is overinflated, but not here. Those guys spend their lives buying hypothetical competitors, they certainly don’t want to leave a market where a competitor with 450 million users could immediately emerge if there’s any vacuum.
Please give me a European social media, I will gladly stop using Facebook and Instagram and so do some of my friends. I like social media since I can easily keep in touch and see what they’re up to.
That’s dumb. Just create PUBLIC European alternatives. A Youtube, Instagram, or TikTok copycat supported by EU institutions and all governments I’m sure would quickly gain a large user base. Stop relying on American tech companies, let’s have our own as China does.
Do it.
Ban Tiktok it hurt the US election and the Romanian.
And Musk bought Twitter with the help of a sanctioned Russian
Europe should just ban Facebook and Twitter. At this point they are just Nazi or Putin propaganda platforms.
Tax advertising or a fee per user. Maybe even a mix.
I wish we had some europe only social media, i’m so tired of americans everywhere.
Brazil did it for a while [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_of_Twitter_in_Brazil](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blocking_of_Twitter_in_Brazil)
We shouldn’t.
US social media apps should be considered a separate topic, and simply banned, since they are being used to destabilize EU elections. RT got banned, why not them?
EU should ban personalized formats in social media. No more recommended videos, it creates the same idocracy as the US tech companies have created. More restrictions on collection of personal information. Make it a thing
That post and algorithm is propaganda trying to convince us that this is radical. Tariffs on tech companies should be the First Response, not the last.
There’s little to nothing to put tariffs on with social media.
This needs to be done in an very intelligent way or else it’s the advertisers on these platforms (meaning other european businesses quite often) end up paying the tax, just like it happens with the digital sales tax where it was implemented.
Otherwise this will just be another tax on the marketing activities of European businesses, since the US players can use their dominant position to pass the cost onwards to them instead.
Eat the billionaires.
And the counter would be to ban all EU people from being able to post on social media.
Nobody wins.