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Between this and Apple's policies, big tech corporations really seem to be putting the screws to the EU as much as they can.

"See, consumers? Look at how bad your regulation is, that you're missing out on all these cool things we're working on. Talk to your politicians!"

Regardless of your political opinion on the subject, you've got to admit, at the very least, it will be educational to see how this develops over the next 5-10 years of tech progress, as the EU gets excluded from more and more things.

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Or, again, they are just deciding the economy isn't worth the cost. (or not worth prioritizing upfront or ....)

When we had numerous discussions on HN as these rules were implemented, this is precisely what the europeans said should happen.

So why does it now have to be some concerted effort to "put the screws to EU"?

I otherwise agree it will be interesting, but mostly in the sense that i watched people swear up and down this was just about protecting EU citizens and they were fine with none of these companies doing anything in the EU or not prioritizing the EU if they decided it wasn't worth the cost.

We'll see if that's true or not, i guess, or if they really wanted it to be "you have to do it, but on our terms" or whatever.

> Between this and Apple's policies, big tech corporations really seem to be putting the screws to the EU as much as they can.

Funny, I see that the other way around, actually. The EU is forcing Big Tech to be transparent and not exploit their users. It's the companies that must choose to comply, or take their business elsewhere. Let's not forget that Apple users in the EU can use 3rd-party stores, and it was EU regulations that forced Apple to switch to USB-C. All of these are a win for consumers.

The reason Meta is not making their models available in the EU is because they can't or won't comply with the recent AI regulations. This only means that the law is working as intended.

> it will be educational to see how this develops over the next 5-10 years of tech progress, as the EU gets excluded from more and more things.

I don't think we're missing much that Big Tech has to offer, and we'll probably be better off for it. I'm actually in favor of even stricter regulations, particularly around AI, but what was recently enacted is a good start.

> The reason Meta is not making their models available in the EU is because they can't or won't comply with the recent AI regulations. This only means that the law is working as intended.

It isn't clear at all, and in fact given how light handed the European Commission when dealing with infringement cases (no fine before lots of warning and even clarification meetings about how to comply with the law) Meta would take no risk at all releasing something now even if they needed to roll it back later.

They are definitely trying to put pressure on the European Commission, leveraging the fact that Thierry Breton was dismissed.

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