»Zuckerberg’s censorship claims were ‘misleading’ — EU tech chief« for politico.eu

“Europe has an ever increasing number of laws institutionalizing censorship and making it difficult to build anything innovative there,” Zuckerberg said.

The longer I think about it, the more I hope the EU stands up to the pressure from the tech giants and possibly from the future US president. It should be the EU’s responsibility to decide how business is conducted here. If that makes the European market less attractive to companies like Meta or Apple, they are of course free to withdraw.

At first glance that may look like a step back into the Stone Age — especially since much of our IT infrastructure comes from the US. But perhaps that could give the domestic IT sector a new boost. According to Bitkom wächst dieser Markt anyway, and such a situation could actually provide it with the opportunity to develop and establish independent alternatives.

I also don’t believe that companies like Microsoft, Meta, or Apple would actually leave the European market — which is exactly why the media uproar is so loud right now.

The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.