It’s nice that the EU has given them direction on how to comply. I’m not a fan of many kinds of regulations in the EU - for example rules that require censorship of speech in social media or the extreme bureaucracy of certain countries. But I don’t see how you can argue against something like this. The largest companies are pretty much immune to competition even without all the anticompetitive stuff they do. When you look at how Apple gives its own products and services special treatment, how they rent seek by preventing app downloads, how they prevent browser competition, etc - it is obvious what’s going on. Just like the EU mislabels censorship as preventing harm or whatever makes it sound good, Apple will claim these policies are solely to protect the security and privacy of its customers. Don’t fall for false labels. If anything I would argue the EU can go much further on regulating big tech, and America should copy those ideas to encourage a healthy competitive market.
It’s nice that the EU has given them direction on how to comply. I’m not a fan of many kinds of regulations in the EU - for example rules that require censorship of speech in social media or the extreme bureaucracy of certain countries. But I don’t see how you can argue against something like this. The largest companies are pretty much immune to competition even without all the anticompetitive stuff they do. When you look at how Apple gives its own products and services special treatment, how they rent seek by preventing app downloads, how they prevent browser competition, etc - it is obvious what’s going on. Just like the EU mislabels censorship as preventing harm or whatever makes it sound good, Apple will claim these policies are solely to protect the security and privacy of its customers. Don’t fall for false labels. If anything I would argue the EU can go much further on regulating big tech, and America should copy those ideas to encourage a healthy competitive market.