Daring Fireball6d ago
The Washington Post on the EU’s DMA Folly
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/06/15/washington-post-dma-folly
The Washington Post on the EU’s DMA Folly

Link to: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/06/14/apple-withholding-siri-ai-europe-is-another-dma-failure/

Daring Fireball
Show threadDrChris6d ago

@daringfireball I think what you’re missing with your American perspective is there’s a real sense of distrust in America and American tech giants in Europe. They’ll happily go without features. See for example the wide-scale rejection of Microsoft Teams across European governments (something I’m sure you agree with?)

https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-german-state-schleswig-holstein-uninstalls-windows/

Yet another European government is ditching Microsoft for Linux - here's why

This state made the open-source shift, and chances are it won't be the last.

ZDNET
Show threadartjulian
@DrChris I already tried to tell him…sovereignty is what they’re going for, not being a superpower.
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Show threadNicholas Modesto6d ago

@artjulian @DrChris
@daringfireball i don’t think I have ever heard ‘super power’ in the articles or POV. Irrespective of the EC’s end goal, their approach is passive aggressive and unproductive. It results in waste, continuous rework, and technical debt.

That is the key point.

Show threadartjulian5d ago

@nicholasmodesto @DrChris
And I quote “Behind all this lies the dream that Europe could be a ‘regulatory superpower.’”

I agree that the approach is unproductive and personally don’t agree with the EU’s methods here, but the perspective is lacking key insights.