Despite new laws in the field of digitalization, the existing European legislation is totally inadequate to counterbalance the Big Tech wave from Silicon Valley. This is argued by philosopher of law Bart van der Sloot. If we take the influence in the field of politics and human and privacy rights truly seriously, a ban on American tech in Europe is crucial, according to this scholar. In addition, we must work to create a European Big Tech industry. Will such a ban succeed and what will it take to set up a European counterpart of Silicon Valley?
Germany and UK have a solution for this problem that works quite well for decades. The organisation that distributes the funds for media is not a part of government and does not takes direct orders, but operates on a strict set of rules that are mutually agreed upon, both by the government and by the media holdings. The funds come from the people who are paying small summ every month. Neither the government nor the corporations can just cut the funds if they don’t like it.
Yeah I know about TV licenses, but aren’t they incredibly unpopular? And a government could eliminate them and replace them with subsidies (which gives them influence) and many voters might agree with that given the unpopularity of TV licenses.
They are as unpopular as any other taxes, people don’t like to give their money away, they’d much prefer to never do it.
And yes, populistic enough government can eliminate whatever public good exists, but you need to be real donald trump about it.
Germany and UK have a solution for this problem that works quite well for decades. The organisation that distributes the funds for media is not a part of government and does not takes direct orders, but operates on a strict set of rules that are mutually agreed upon, both by the government and by the media holdings. The funds come from the people who are paying small summ every month. Neither the government nor the corporations can just cut the funds if they don’t like it.
Yeah I know about TV licenses, but aren’t they incredibly unpopular? And a government could eliminate them and replace them with subsidies (which gives them influence) and many voters might agree with that given the unpopularity of TV licenses.
They are as unpopular as any other taxes, people don’t like to give their money away, they’d much prefer to never do it.
And yes, populistic enough government can eliminate whatever public good exists, but you need to be real donald trump about it.