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Report: EU Commission wants to involve US more closely in tech regulation

Report: EU Commission wants to involve US more closely in tech regulation - Lemmy.zip

cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/61888662 [https://lemmy.zip/post/61888662] > MEPs have sharply criticized the plan. “Our fear is that the implementation of our laws and standards will be called into question by American companies,” criticizes Green MEP Sergey Lagodinsky, for example. “If this is confirmed, it would be nothing less than a capitulation to the pressure and intimidation tactics of the Trump administration.” The EU Commission repeatedly emphasizes that it does not want to change its regulations due to US pressure. However, some of the recently proposed changes in digital legislation, particularly to the AI Act and the General Data Protection Regulation, primarily benefit US companies that are already dominant in the market.

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Specter 4d ago

I really don’t understand the EU.

While the Us has Trump threatening Denmark’s sovereignty, threatening to pull out of NATO, making up lies about the EU being created to screw the US, have multiple US billionaires and his whole administration lobbying EU countries to degrade EU unity, the EU goes out in full bend-over mode to whatever the US wants.

Want every EU citizens Medical data? Go ahead. Want to regulate our industries? Why go ahead. Want us to implement Chat Control? Fuck it, we’re all part of the same Epstein class anyway.

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A_norny_mousse

I see two factors here: a) the same “trends” that are happening in the US are happening here too, if to a lesser extent, and b) they’ve been riding the “USA our friend and partner” train for so long, they don’t know how to get off.