No disagreement here generally. The EU had a good track record in terms of holding big tech accountable, and GDPR has certainly paved the way for similar regulation elsewhere (looking at you, California).
That said, EU bodies have recently shown much less determination: the recent Twitter fine under the DSA was a joke, born from fear of retaliation from the Trump administration which had been bought by Musk beforehand stands in firm support of American companies out of the pure goodness of their black hearts. The same goes for the so-called trade “deal” with the US and the “Digital Omnibus”, both of which caved to American business interests. And with regard to the EU’s ongoing dependence on the US - both technologically as well as militarily - that is unlikely to change in the short term.
You can joke about it, but European regulators in the tech space are doing important work that rolls downhill to much of the world.
It sounds like a very good thing to me that Europe is maybe going to force Tesla disclosures and/or force them to work out the bugs in their tech.
No disagreement here generally. The EU had a good track record in terms of holding big tech accountable, and GDPR has certainly paved the way for similar regulation elsewhere (looking at you, California).
That said, EU bodies have recently shown much less determination: the recent Twitter fine under the DSA was a joke, born from fear of retaliation from the Trump administration which
had been bought by Musk beforehandstands in firm support of American companies out of the pure goodness of their black hearts. The same goes for the so-called trade “deal” with the US and the “Digital Omnibus”, both of which caved to American business interests. And with regard to the EU’s ongoing dependence on the US - both technologically as well as militarily - that is unlikely to change in the short term.