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    1. Ireland is a Big Tech tax haven. Ireland taking the side of US Big Tech is the least surprising thing in the world.

    2. No_Priors on

      This needs to be decided at an EU level, no amount of “Tech” money is worth sovereignty.

      Edit: The EU has helped us many times.

    3. hmtk1976 on

      That Donohoe guy simply wants to keep pandering to the Big Tech firms. Great but no thanks.

    4. First-District9726 on

      I never thought I’d ever side with Big Tech on anything, ever, yet here we are. What a weird timeline we are in.

    5. Tax the big tech, they are propaganga machines, the violate or privacy and cause electoral interference while promoting hate and desinformation.

      Reigning them is more important than any “deal with Trump” as id such a thing is possible.

      While also kickstart our own tech sector, it is a win-win situation.

    6. Paschal saying what the Americans want to hear, knowing it makes no difference to the outcome. 

    7. perivascularspaces on

      If we set up tariffs without having alternatives we just get screwed. It’s the reason why Trump’s tariffs show is dumb, it affects the users/consumers first, especially if you don’t have any valuable alternative to use.

      Almost all of the EU is based on US services because we lost the digital and AI wars to protect our pensions.

    8. marciniaq84 on

      I think the EU should not rush into any retaliation. But we should no doubt answer the orange man where it hurts by targeting goods produced in red states and goods made by his donors. From what I have read the EU is already doing that. Smart.

    9. Grabs_Diaz on

      This is just pathetic!

      Brussels and the entire EU stood firmly behind Ireland throughout the Brexit negotiations. No border, no customs checks to Northern Ireland despite all the antics of Boris Johnson and his lot.

      And now, at the first sight of trouble, Ireland wants to throw the rest of Europe under the bus for American big tech oligarchs? Maybe the Irish government needs a reminder, that the only reason these big tech corporations have their headquarters in Dublin is because of the EU and the single market. If the EU fractures and Ireland loses its access to the markets of mainland Europe, these firms will be gone in a heartbeat and relocate to Paris or Frankfurt.

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