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[–] [email protected] 1 points 32 minutes ago

FUCKING DO IT

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Do it, the USA lost their industrial base to the shareholders and services is all they have. Let it rip!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 12 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

deregulating

Nope. Nope-nopety-nope, leave this american bullshit where it belongs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Pardon my ignorance but what does deregulating the single Market mean?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Reducing things the way it should be done. Got it. Thank you

[–] [email protected] 13 points 12 hours ago

hell, it's about time

[–] [email protected] 20 points 17 hours ago

Yeah and make it 200%

[–] [email protected] 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Show this to Varoufakis.

[–] [email protected] 223 points 1 day ago (27 children)

Don’t use tariffs. Legalize jailbreaking and adversarial interop instead. Disregard American DRM.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/15/beauty-eh/

[–] [email protected] 14 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

And legalize piracy of US-created media content such as movies and TV series.

[–] [email protected] 131 points 1 day ago (22 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Bonus: It might make some companies move to non-US hosters, making their data way safer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I've switched to Hetzner and I'm super happy. Fuck DigitalOcean and their ever increasing prices.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

I'm at Hetzner für 10-15 years now.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

Put a tariff on the companies that was pro-Trump, and who was at his inauguration.

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[–] [email protected] 125 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Maybe fix the Irish tax loophole first?

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 day ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

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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[–] Darkcoffee 314 points 1 day ago (51 children)

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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