European Commission lines up Amazon and Microsoft for cloud gatekeeper status(www.theregister.com)
40 pointsby Bender4 hours ago3 comments
  • twoodfin2 hours ago
    Who’s on each side of the gate?
    • vrganj2 hours ago
      On one side, consumers. On the other, vendors.
  • iso16312 hours ago
    10% of Microsoft's turnover is $28b, 10% of amazon is $71b

    The goal here is to make sure these companies obey the law though, which big tech companies seem to think is optional.

    • dumbmrblahan hour ago
      Really should be the turnover amount for operations originating from the EU, not worldwide.
      • specproc33 minutes ago
        In which case, they route it all through some subsidiary in the Cayman Islands and it magically disappears.

        No, this is a deterrent against anti-consumer behaviour, and it should be meaningful.

  • dmitrygr2 hours ago
    And when everyone is a gatekeeper … no one is
    • samrus2 hours ago
      Thats not how it works
    • ezst2 hours ago
      What are you even trying to say?
      • dmitrygr2 hours ago
        that before long, everyone will be declared a gatekeeper, just so EU can control everything as they please.
        • IsToman hour ago
          You need at least 7.5B euro turnover and 45M MAU in the EU to have a chance to qualify. It's not going to be everyone.
        • vrganj2 hours ago
          Why shouldn't our sovereign government control things as they please? That's the whole point of sovereignty - people elect government, government makes rules.
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          • dmitrygr32 minutes ago
            You can control what ENTERS your borders, not what happens outside of them. You are free to cut the cables, but not to dictate to those outside your house how to live on the other end of those cables. Else we'll all be living under the union of the rules of everyone. You sure you want that? Iran bans a lot of things you might like, as does china, and russia, and usa.
          • mctaylor2 hours ago
            That's not how that's supposed to work!

            Democratically elected governments should have no say as to how many billions of dollars of market activity tech oligarchs are entitled to capture and redirect towards their very noble goal of winning the competition to see who can build the biggest yacht.

            And, of course, building bunkers for when enough of the general population eventually catches onto and gets tired of the grift...

            • surgical_fire32 minutes ago
              Some baseline needs to be a established, because small palyers can't play with the same rules of larger ones.

              And it is absolutely the role of the government to regulate the market.