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Europe and European governments can no longer rely on American clouds. A European alternative won’t emerge on its own. That’s why it’s time for industrial policy—but it won’t be easy.
In this post, I explore the challenges and immodestly propose a coherent strategy to develop European alternatives: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/now-how-to-get-that-european-cloud/
As an example, the rules for storing content you have not evaluated for being legal are too strict, and the consequences too harsh. If one example of porn, copyright violation or nazi propaganda slips through automated checks, platforms may face criminal consequences, and can't just say "sorry" and take it down like in the US.
GDPR is also designed to have an immense overhead to smaller players who suddenly need to hire legal teams, while large players already have the necessary staff and have no real trouble putting up with the (to them) minor increase in bureaucracy.
Regulations need to be evaluated about how they benefit outside actors like the US more than startups in the EU, and adjusted accordingly. The DMA actually has some good ideas in there and seems to not have this kind of bias.
@bert_hubert@fosstodon.org@divVerent my government streaming proposal had nothing about porn in there or hosting general videos. It is a European habit to look for regulatory problems even when they aren't there yet.
@bert_hubert I just know that at least one major company (OK, an US one) refuses to store any user generated content in Germany because they cannot, despite all kinds of use of ML and AI, entirely rule out that one of those files may contain a swastika. And I know for a fact that this would then have up to 3 years of prison on it: § 86a (1) 2. StGB.
“Yes but we didn’t know” -> “You knew your scanning can’t get everything, so there’s dolus eventualis“