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'Europe must ban American Big Tech and create a European Silicon Valley' (www.tilburguniversity.edu)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

It's not about a sovereign EU, it's about government controlling the media. There is too much temptation for a politician to use that control to make the media say only good things about them and negative things about the opposition. See Russia for an example of how bad that can get.

Are all of the newspapers controlled by the EU? Do you think it would be better if they were.

Anyway, yeah I'm talking about social media. The primary problem of social media is that it's an oligopoly. Create regulation so people can have choice without being cut of from their friends that are on a shitty platform and people will leave to be on better platforms and companies will have to compete to provide a better product.

Very few people actually like Facebook and Twitter, they just can't leave because they wouldn't be able to communicate with their friends and family if they did. And their friends and family can't leave for the same reason. What if you could go to a Friendica site and still be able to chat with your friends that are still on Facebook and they could see your posts you make and vice versa? How many people would stay on Facebook if there was no longer a barrier to leaving? How many people would put up with Elon Musk's antics on twitter if they could leave and still communicate with the people they like that are still on Twitter?

If there was no major barrier to leaving these sites, they'd have to compete to provide quality moderation, make it easy to find the things you like, improve algorithms so they aren't shoving shit you don't care about into your face, etc. Having a single government entity doing this wouldn't provide this and the site would probably just be constant bickering about what the government should and should not allow on social media.