Microsoft faces antitrust scrutiny from the European Union over Teams, Office 365 - eviltoast
    • nivenkos@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      There’s always been a lot of bureaucracy - the eurocrats meme exists for a reason. Look up the precautionary principle which influenced an anti-GM and anti-nuclear stance.

      It seems to be getting even worse under Von der Leyen though - with the Chat Control act, AI act, Cyber Resilience act, etc. - even parts of the GDPR and Digital Services Act introduce a lot of red tape for starting companies. Just look at Germany too, like all the CDU corruption with the masks - where they were effectively bribed by certain companies to then force all their citizens to buy those particular masks.

      Ideally everyone would be able to easily try new endeavours - with no issue around filing taxes, bank accounts, filing trademarks, checking patents, data privacy laws, etc. and there’d be wealth and property taxes and a lot of investment in education and FOSS to level the playing field.