The problem with *all* the views reported here is that they assume the only challenge to #DigitalSovereignty is the so-called 'nationality' of the company providing the services and infrastructure. They overlook two crucial points:
1. The nationality of a company is fungible.
2. Some of these companies are capable of being geopolitical actors themselves.
#Neoliberalism and #ReguloSolutionism blinds them to the need for #Nationalisation of essential tech infrastructure
@TechCrunch
You can be pretty sure that kind of sum is less than the fine they priced in to their business model.
When are governments going to realise that fines don't hurt, they just make wrongdoing a bit more expensive?
#ReguloSolutionism in action.
It is a mistake to think that Big Tech's fawning to Trump in the hope of lighter regulation is about *money*. They can afford the costs of regulatory compliance and still make grotesque profits in the same way they can afford to pay taxes and still be obscenely rich.
The problem with #regulation and #taxation is *power*.
If you conceive of yourself and/or your company as a sovereign state, then any nation state telling you what to do is an act of aggression.
I am pleased I coined a word for this before somebody #JumpedTheShark!
Russia wins at #ReguloSolutionism
Sometimes my reactions to what an author says just don’t fit in the margins.
https://listed.to/@24601/52640/how-to-stop-thinking-like-a-regulosolutionist
@JamesBaker I am puzzled why everyone is reaching for a ban. It seems the wrong tool to solve a complex social problem.
What is really being banned is *parents* buying smartphones for their children (or otherwise allowing it).
Some do it because they think the benefits outweigh the risk of harm. Others just cave in to pressure. Yet others don't understand the risks of harm.
A ban outlaws the good parents and treats the weak/bad parents as incorrigible failures.
#ReguloSolutionism will fail
@GossiTheDog
These tech companies really are like teenagers trying it on to see what they can get away with.
Trouble is, they are teenagers who are bigger* than their parents and legal threats mean little to them.
*i.e. have enough cash to shrug off any legal process including fines.
We need an alternative to #ReguloSolutionism ASAP
@ilumium
That's because the whole cookie preferences thing was the wishful thinking of people captivated by #ReguloSolutionism
Just encourage compliance theatre without actual compliance.
If we want to stop tech companies being bad, we have to think about them rather differently.
Tom Stoneham
