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Biden urged to stop EU 'unfairly' targeting American tech

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Biden urged to stop EU 'unfairly' targeting American tech::5 out of 6 'gatekeepers' are US-based so regulators across pond are just being mean to us, say lawmakers

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Maybe that's because American corporations suck, wouldn't it be great if Biden actually enforced anti-trust laws instead of bowing down to them.
- Then again, when has any American president stood up to big corporations?
  
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Corp
Shockingly, the American president does not have jurisdiction over the eu. I mean, they know this, they it's more political hot air for nothing, and we give them the attention they want for it.
- They don't have jurisdiction. But they have other things that make them very important to the EU which can be leveraged.
  
  Yeah, let's do a trade war to save Google's monopoly! That's definitely in everyone's interest!
As an American...I support the EU. Because America will always support the capitalists fucking you over, and the EU at least tries to do differently...
- Yah nice to have someone on the side of consumers for once. Shame we have to look across the ocean to find them
US has the most protectionist policies west of Beijing.
- And east of Beijing.
  
  Also north of Beijing
Alternative title: American Corporations rail that they can't rampage, unchecked, across the entire globe like they can in America. They whine about this publicly to ~~their paid lackeys~~ the government.
Fuck this ambiguous headline.
Maybe if US tech companies weren’t monstrous behemoths this wouldn’t be necessary
Yeah, this has nothing to do with Biden. That said, it sounds like the rules are not being applied fairly. That said, it's not like America has fair, consistent policies or anything...
"Unfairly"
citation needed
hey you conservative fuckwad, imagine if the world didnt revolve around the corporations that feed your political coffers.
BIDEN, imagine if you were for the people. god damn i hate this old republican.
- Read the title again.
  Biden didn't do anything.
  He was "urged" to do something by someone else.
  
  congresscritters
  Did they really use this term? Lol
  
  dude, my bad, thanks!
  i stand by my opinion he and the democratic party are really the republicans at this point. there are a handful of democrats and a room full of fascists.
This is just sideways related, but considering how difficult is making anything because of the word "ITAR" it is absolutely normal EU is trying to go away as fast as possible from EEUU tech and companies and is regulating their behaviour here.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Bipartisan congressional representatives have sent a letter to President Joe Biden, demanding action over what they claim is the unfair targeting of US tech companies by the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA).
The letter [PDF], signed by 22 congresscritters, complains that, out of six gatekeepers designated earlier this year under the DMA, five are based in the US and none in the EU.
Gatekeepers, per the European Commission, are companies that "provide an important gateway between businesses and consumers in relation to core platform services."
The representatives also took umbrage that large Chinese tech companies like Tencent, Alibaba, and Huawei weren't included as gatekeepers, "despite the fact that they are competing aggressively with US firms in the EU and other markets."
Samsung, having no other skin in the game, wasn't otherwise included, while Alphabet and Microsoft's other core platform services meant they stayed on the gatekeeper list.
"We strongly urge you to advocate for American companies and workers by insisting that EU policymakers administer and enforce their digital policies fairly," the representatives asked of Biden, seemingly oblivious to the fact that, of the ten largest tech companies in the world, six of them are headquartered in the United States.
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EU: I'm gonna target even harder

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