The European Union is working on countermeasures in response to the tariffs that US president Trump has announced. Commission president Ursula von der
  • Darkcoffee@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    163·
    28 days ago

    Yes. Tech billionaires are the ones who stood behind Trump proudly on inauguration day, so let’s start using Canadian/European options. Plenty of them match what those tech companies offer anyway.

    • skozzii@lemmy.caEnglish
      661·
      28 days ago

      I believe this is how we can cripple the US.

      I just switched my services over and there are some great alternatives, we have just been pre-programmed to use the American default brands.

      Adobe, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon all easy to replace.

      The only challenging one so far is YouTube, content is just lacking elsewhere, but atleast with adblockers YouTube isn’t getting my money.

      • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17·
        28 days ago

        As an American I’m here for it and encourage it. These greedy evil fuckers need to be brought down and if we have to burn it all down so be it, so we can rebuild better. What we have now is clearly not functioning for anyone but the 1%.

      • Arkouda@lemmy.caEnglish
        62·
        28 days ago

        Any recommendations? It seems a lot of my alternatives are turning heel and I would like more options. Preferably ones not likely to turn heel.

      • andallthat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        28 days ago

        yes, there are clearly unfair trade practices here. EU has been making money for Google and Amazon, but the US are not using our services. I hear the best solution to this are tariffs: EU users have to pay to use gmail until enough US users start using EU email providers and we rebalance the services trade!

    • Squizzy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      28 days ago

      Deleted meta acccount with a note referencing trump and zuck. Not much but its what I had to do

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    681·
    28 days ago

    Do it, fuck up Twitter, Amazon, meta, and everyone else that shared a stage with trump.

    The only language they know is $, if trump is bad for their money, they’ll go against trump.

    These are people obsessed with wealth over every thing else, it’s not hard to manipulate them, but when rational adults regain power, we need to tax the ever loving shit out of them because no matter what happens, they’ll always choose “more money”.

    • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      72·
      28 days ago

      I wouldn’t go as far as saying it’s very easy to manipulate American oligarchs. However, they are relatively provincial and lack the capabilities to deal with truly complex challenges.

      They operate in an environment with no real risk. They’ve never dealt with any real challenges. The US judicial system is a joke (even in China, Alibaba’s Jack Ma immediately regretted going on a public chimp out). US society is either openly supportive of corruption and criminality or lacks the capability (true desire and risk tolerance) to address corruption.

      This is not to underestimate American oligarchs. They are extremely sophisticated and absolutely committed to their “number go up” fetish, but you also have to be real about what they are.

  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    28 days ago

    All it takes is a critical mass of users to make their own Facebook. A continental divide seems like a good place.

    • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      28 days ago

      When America sends their users, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending trolls, shitposters, influencers. They’re bringing Ben Shapiro and Alex Jones. And some, I assume, are good users.

      Edit: The original quote (about Mexicans) is from 2015. Feel old yet?

  • Lanske@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    28 days ago

    Sounds like a good idea, hit them where it hurts! I left Big Tech a while ago, but if the EU can hit them with tariffs and hurt people like Zuck and (F)Elon, awesome!

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    6·
    28 days ago

    Newspapers, magazines, TV, film, movies, broadcasts are all regulated nationally and internationally

    The same should be done for corporate social media companies who basically deliver all or most news content and information to people everywhere today.

    The current state of the world is like being in the 1900s and only having six major newspapers in the world owned by big corporations and none of the content they publish or share is regulated or controlled.

  • Gammelfisch@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    27 days ago

    Do it, the USA lost their industrial base to the shareholders and services is all they have. Let it rip!