[betteryet]

How about we break up the tech industry instead?

This muskian "I am above laws so I'll break up the USA/EU" is asinine and societies should come down on it like a ton of bricks.

[eddythompson80]

Is the assumption that non "tech industry" communities (e.g: voat, parler, ovaries, gab, truth, lemmy, mastodon, 4chan, 8chan, etc) are less likely to be a problem or to negatively impact teens than the mainstream "big tech" ones (e.g: facebook, twitter, youtube, tiktok, reddit, etc)?

[rockertalker]

I think if you run a website as a main source of your business profitable or not you’re in the tech industry. It’s a question of scale not industry classification or purpose classification.

[biophysboy]

The thing with those alternative communities is that they sort of orbit around the larger tech platforms. Their agenda is set by the news-of-the-day within certain X/FB/YouTube subcommunities. Its sort of analogous to wire services in traditional media.

Additionally, people that post on those platforms originally gained notoriety on the bigger tech platforms, and took their audience with them.

[betteryet]

Not my point. The original comment said the tech industry can decide to break up the federal government because they don't want to be forced to clean up their act. Societies should be stronger than any industry and fight to maintain freedom, health, peace, and prosperity. If the tech industry is against that, then they should be the ones broken up.

[eikenberry]

Because Fedgov stopped any real anti-trust regulation over a century ago and have shown they have no will nor ability to change that since.

[RobotToaster]

Why not both?

[stronglikedan]

It's not going to happen, at least not in the land of crony capitalism.

[atmosx]

I agree. It’s just there has not been a pro-EU vote in any form or capacity by any EU population. So the stopped doing referendums but the EU grew only even more unpopular- and lately with VDL and KK, its as if its a cruel joke we all expect for it to end soon.

[betteryet]

EU is holding, but the fact that every authoritarian (US, China, Russia) is trying to break it apart should tell you something. It's like the only one remaining, and they don't like it.

You may not agree, but VDL and KK have more balls than most men who have run the EU in recent history.

[wrxd]

So unpopular that the only country who ever decided to leave is now regretting its decision

[victorbjorklund]

What are you talking about? Lots of countries have voted to join EU. Any country can leave when they want. EU is still popular in most countries.