Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to Buy European@feddit.ukEnglish · 18 days agoEurope builds its own payments system to challenge Visa and Mastercardwww.youtube.comexternal-linkmessage-square78linkfedilinkarrow-up1362
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minus-squarejabjoe@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·16 days agoThat won’t fly. The EU is a massive market for Apple and Google they won’t want to lose. But hey, I’d love those monopolies to burn too, so be great to see the problem of them highlighted like that. Digital sovereignty is suddenly a hot topic.
minus-squarehaagch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·13 days agoApple and Google won’t have much of a choice if the government demands it. Will the current government? Maybe, maybe not. Will the next? Who knows.
minus-squarejabjoe@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·13 days agoThis is why digital sovereignty is so import. We deal with the companies now or we may never be able to.
That won’t fly. The EU is a massive market for Apple and Google they won’t want to lose.
But hey, I’d love those monopolies to burn too, so be great to see the problem of them highlighted like that.
Digital sovereignty is suddenly a hot topic.
Apple and Google won’t have much of a choice if the government demands it. Will the current government? Maybe, maybe not. Will the next? Who knows.
This is why digital sovereignty is so import. We deal with the companies now or we may never be able to.