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Posted by Bender 2 hours ago

European Commission lines up Amazon and Microsoft for cloud gatekeeper status(www.theregister.com)
37 points | 10 comments
iso1631 56 minutes ago|
10% of Microsoft's turnover is $28b, 10% of amazon is $71b

The goal here is to make sure these companies obey the law though, which big tech companies seem to think is optional.

twoodfin 1 hour ago||
Who’s on each side of the gate?
vrganj 51 minutes ago|
On one side, consumers. On the other, vendors.
dmitrygr 1 hour ago|
And when everyone is a gatekeeper … no one is
samrus 1 hour ago||
Thats not how it works
ezst 1 hour ago||
What are you even trying to say?
dmitrygr 56 minutes ago||
that before long, everyone will be declared a gatekeeper, just so EU can control everything as they please.
IsTom 18 minutes ago|||
You need at least 7.5B euro turnover and 45M MAU in the EU to have a chance to qualify. It's not going to be everyone.
vrganj 47 minutes ago|||
Why shouldn't our sovereign government control things as they please? That's the whole point of sovereignty - people elect government, government makes rules.
mctaylor 32 minutes ago|||
That's not how that's supposed to work!

Democratically elected governments should have no say as to how many billions of dollars of market activity tech oligarchs are entitled to capture and redirect towards their very noble goal of winning the competition to see who can build the biggest yacht.

And, of course, building bunkers for when enough of the general population eventually catches onto and gets tired of the grift...