The Flutterlands wrote:Purpelia wrote:Sadly yes.
1. The american market is by far the largest open internet market in the world. China and Russia are both competitors for size but content from those region tends to be far more localized. As a result, the vast majority of content and more crucially content hosting services tend to be centered on catering to america. And thus any anti competitive practices that will inevitably arise from this will tend to effect the western world disproportionately.
In simple terms things like a viable alternative to youtube and google for the west will wither and die because they are being sabotaged by youtube and google on the american market and the rest of the west is not a large enough market to keep them competitive.
2. It sets a dangerous legal precedent that will, like all disgusting free market things, metastasize into the rest of the western world as well. Corporations, after all are a global evil and not an american one. And once they get a taste for american blood you can bet they will try and bleed the rest of us dry as well.
So why can't we have a revolt to stop this? Every one who cares about this are explaining why this is so awful yet people prefer to just let it happen thinking we'll get it back one day. What if that day never comes? What is so wrong about actually fighting this literal tooth and nail?
"We might have sucky internet for a bit"
"We should violently rebel against the US government"
Alright, let's all just calm the hell down.