10 comments

  • iso1631 an hour ago

    10% of Microsoft's turnover is $28b, 10% of amazon is $71b

    The goal here is to make sure these companies obey the law though, which big tech companies seem to think is optional.

  • twoodfin an hour ago

    Who’s on each side of the gate?

    • vrganj 41 minutes ago

      On one side, consumers. On the other, vendors.

  • dmitrygr an hour ago

    And when everyone is a gatekeeper … no one is

    • samrus an hour ago

      Thats not how it works

    • ezst an hour ago

      What are you even trying to say?

      • dmitrygr an hour ago

        that before long, everyone will be declared a gatekeeper, just so EU can control everything as they please.

        • IsTom 8 minutes ago

          You need at least 7.5B euro turnover and 45M MAU in the EU to have a chance to qualify. It's not going to be everyone.

        • vrganj 38 minutes ago

          Why shouldn't our sovereign government control things as they please? That's the whole point of sovereignty - people elect government, government makes rules.

          • mctaylor 23 minutes ago

            That's not how that's supposed to work!

            Democratically elected governments should have no say as to how many billions of dollars of market activity tech oligarchs are entitled to capture and redirect towards their very noble goal of winning the competition to see who can build the biggest yacht.

            And, of course, building bunkers for when enough of the general population eventually catches onto and gets tired of the grift...