Over the last decade, the EU has taken an aggressive regulatory approach toward Big Tech. Citing concerns about privacy and monopolization, they have fined the likes of Google and Meta for billions of dollars, and enacted countless pieces of regulation.
> Permitting fines based on global revenue would set disastrous precedent: if the EU can set fines based on global revenue, why can’t any other country? Any other big market with a little bit of leverage could try to extract a slice of the pie. Why shouldn’t India, which has ~500M Meta users, start fining Meta for 10% of its global revenue?
Prescient! India has indeed started doing this (to Apple)
Really insightful post. It does feel like there is more consumer will (both in US but Europe too) to switch from these big tech products, and perhaps… dare I say…. Even pay for high quality / more niche alternatives (discord maybe one shining light?). Doubt those alternatives will ever reach the scale of big tech but maybe medium tech is ok too
> Permitting fines based on global revenue would set disastrous precedent: if the EU can set fines based on global revenue, why can’t any other country? Any other big market with a little bit of leverage could try to extract a slice of the pie. Why shouldn’t India, which has ~500M Meta users, start fining Meta for 10% of its global revenue?
Prescient! India has indeed started doing this (to Apple)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/apple-contests-indias-antitrust-penalty-law-with-risk-38-billion-fine-filing-2025-11-26/
Great post. Imagine what China could do to EU companies with this logic.
Really insightful post. It does feel like there is more consumer will (both in US but Europe too) to switch from these big tech products, and perhaps… dare I say…. Even pay for high quality / more niche alternatives (discord maybe one shining light?). Doubt those alternatives will ever reach the scale of big tech but maybe medium tech is ok too
muy revelador este articulo, muchas gracias galician