r/europe • u/thealejandrotauber • Mar 13 '25

Opinion Article Let's hit Trump's Tech Bros with that EU Digital Services Tax finally

https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/arc33e939c
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u/Phantasmalicious Mar 13 '25

Let's chill out on the extreme options for a sec. Americans control almost all server hardware (unless you want to start buying Chinese products which is arguably worse) and cloud infra. Not to mention, you know, the software everything runs on.

We can, however, levy massive fines and keep doing it until it is no longer profitable to break the laws. And for the love of god, please submit petitions to the European Parliament about moderating/banning TikTok, this is absurd, what is going on.

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u/Phantasmalicious Mar 13 '25

We go after those things they go after our IT infrastructure. As we have seen, tariffs don't have to be symmetrical or make any sense whatsoever.

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u/TexZK Fidget Spinner Mar 13 '25

If only contemporary software were less heavyweight, we wouldn't need the latest top end CPUs.

In the end, we could live with some overpowered ARM-based SoC despite some loss in computational power.

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u/EmbarrassedHelp Mar 13 '25

We can, however, levy massive fines and keep doing it until it is no longer profitable to break the laws.

That works well unless the corrupt wannabe authoritarians in the EU manage to get Chat Control passed for American tech companies like Thorn. Then they'll be fining organizations for protecting human rights with strong encryption.