> The misalignment between Europe and the USA has grown the recent years
I wouldn't count the last 20+ years as "recent", but ok.
> The solution is trivially easy and has existed for long: open standards.
What we usually get is a hybrid "compromise". Things of absolutely no consequence are using open standards, e.g. Messenger will send JSON back and forth and things that matter a lot, e.g. social engineering algorithms for "ads" are black boxes.
It is my personal opinion these heavily asymmetric compromises are a consequence of severe technical inadequacy from most power bearing persons in the EU parliament. Another plausible explanation might be mind boggling corruption.
> The alternative is heavy regulated monopolies, no government is going to allow this situation to go for long
What we get so far are monopolies that are heavily regulated in inconsequential aspects to "please the crowd". Also, it has been a tendency of humans to underestimate how long a bad situation could last. Governments are very much a reflection of it's people(believe it or not) and they mostly "don't want trouble" - it is my belief it's exactly this attitude that has lead us so far astray.
I wouldn't count the last 20+ years as "recent", but ok.
> The solution is trivially easy and has existed for long: open standards.
What we usually get is a hybrid "compromise". Things of absolutely no consequence are using open standards, e.g. Messenger will send JSON back and forth and things that matter a lot, e.g. social engineering algorithms for "ads" are black boxes.
It is my personal opinion these heavily asymmetric compromises are a consequence of severe technical inadequacy from most power bearing persons in the EU parliament. Another plausible explanation might be mind boggling corruption.
> The alternative is heavy regulated monopolies, no government is going to allow this situation to go for long
What we get so far are monopolies that are heavily regulated in inconsequential aspects to "please the crowd". Also, it has been a tendency of humans to underestimate how long a bad situation could last. Governments are very much a reflection of it's people(believe it or not) and they mostly "don't want trouble" - it is my belief it's exactly this attitude that has lead us so far astray.