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'Europe must ban American Big Tech and create a European Silicon Valley' (www.tilburguniversity.edu)
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[โ€“] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 116 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

In addition, we must work to create a European Big Tech industry.

yes, but also facepalm this is still missing the point

Big Tech industry

^ taps the sign above my head

THAT is the problem, yes the US version is one of the more aggressive cancers but recognize that the US is a product of the US mindset that worships big tech.

People are running out of water for their families because a category of techbro running my country consider the power hungry datacenters powering this AI "techboom" more important than human lives.

points at the sign

[โ€“] Sl00k@programming.dev 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

In a much more regulated environment you would have recycled water instead of destroying families water supplies.

A lot of these critiques are of unregulated capitalism as opposed to the entity of big tech itself. Now can you have big tech without unregulated capitalism maybe not, there's a reason it's as broken of a system as it is.