The EU's proposed billion dollar fine for Twitter/X disinformation, is just the start of European & American tech diverging into separate spheres.

[u/lughnasadh]

The EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) makes Big Tech (like Meta, Google) reveal how they track users, moderate content, and handle disinformation. Most of these companies hate the law and are lobbying against it in Brussels—but except for Twitter (now X), they’re at least trying to follow it for EU users.

Meanwhile, US politics may push Big Tech to resist these rules more aggressively, especially since they have strong influence over the current US government.

AI will be the next big tech divide: The US will likely have little regulation, while the EU will take a much stronger approach to regulating. Growing tensions—over trade, military threats, and tech policies—are driving the US and EU apart, and this split will continue for at least four more years.

More info on the $1 billion fine.

[u/scytob]

What a lot of unrelated facts about organic growth of the internet that it is utterly irrelevant to social media developments. You assertions about people finding each other is wrong and ignores the reality of the times you are describing. You might have well started with the development of the wheel and added electricity, they are as relevant as the comments about dns. You seem to have constructed an artificial story in your head.

It’s far simpler, in social media it transformed from startups that helped people communicate to businesses that monetized the users to the exclusion of all others considerations - causing what we see now. DNS Ip has sweet fa to go with this.

[u/bitechnobable → u/scytob]

Yes like i said, this is my view. And what you write is like your buissness-like opinion story man.

[u/SerHodorTheThrall → u/bitechnobable]

The origin of the internet is business and military. It was a professional tool that got turned into a consumer product.

Beyond the fact that anyone in the 90's grew up using AIM to communicate and share and Facebook was in no way the first of its kind, with sites like Myspace and Orkut existing and reaching their popularity years before. Facebook simply got popular because it was exclusive. It was a college exclusive networking tool first. Then it became a place for High Schoolers to segregate from MySpace which had filled with children. I had nothing to do with commercialization.

It's really been inevitable. Here it's important to remember that monopolies always gets lazy from their positions, eventually they simply can't maintain the service in any functional way. People get tired and if there are alternatives, they will win out.

Tell me you've never taken economic history without telling me. Trust busting wouldn't be a thing if what you're saying is true.

[u/bitechnobable → u/SerHodorTheThrall]

Last i checked military and military supported research supported development of ideas from the research at universities. I.e. soley state money. Especially back then.

Dont know why you bring up the 90s if you want to discuss its orgins in the 60s?

Buissness simply jumped on the infrastructure established by taxpayers money. Like always.

LMGTFY.