jimmysmitty :
bit_user :
bcarter12356 :
All of these tech companies should dump the EU. They think they own the Internet and all tech.
No, they just want to control their own market, as is their right to do. They're not suing Google over what it's doing in the US or China.
bcarter12356 :
They're American companies.
Eh, originally, and when it suits them. But, they play in global markets and do R&D, manufacturing, services, etc. all over the world. And guess what? When a foreign company is doing business in your market, you get to regulate what they can do and how!
bcarter12356 :
What happens to all this money if the EU gets it? Does it go into the pockets of the EU leaders? Probably.
Good question; wrong answer.
bcarter12356 :
Europe is becoming a cesspool so they might as well get out.
Why the hate? Because not all of their democracies are yet as corrupted as the USA? Why would you rather see an un-elected corporate entity win out over people's right to govern themselves and their market?
The government "controlling" anything never works. Its why so many governments before have failed, they over extend.
If you don't want government controlling
anything, you're talking about a libertarian fantasy land that has never existed. You should try telling China that government regulation doesn't work.
And besides, you don't hear people pointing to all the millions of bankruptcies and every time corporations have hurt consumers or employees as a reason that capitalism is broken, even though these incidents are probably far greater than all the government errors anybody has ever heard about.
Nothing is perfect, but the sane response to problems is to fix them - not argue that what has worked well for more than a century is fundamentally broken and should be scrapped.
jimmysmitty :
Every country is just as if not more corrupt than the US.
Cool story. Except that's
all it is, because that's a statement you can never support with any kind of decent evidence or sources.
jimmysmitty :
Every government has the same failing. They are all run bu career politicians whom have a bias and eventually do things more in their favor rather than what the people who elected them want.
Yes, politicians aren't saints. That's why you need things like democracy, transparency (freedom of press), checks-and-balances, and politicians not to be above the law. Again, a sane response to bad governance is to look at countries that are better run, see what they're doing differently, and try to fix what's wrong with yours. Or, look at countries that are worse-run, and try to learn from their mistakes.