On 4/4/25 18:43, Giuseppe Attardi wrote:
Questo mi suggerisce un altro tipo di intervento. L’Europa potrebbe usare questo come arma di negoziazione contro i dazi di Trump.
Invocando motivi di emergenza di sicurezza nazionale, l’UE potrebbe sequestrare tutti i datacenter in Europa di aziende USA. I datacenter confiscati verrebbero messi a disposizione di un consorzio pubblico, incaricato di gestirli.
Potrebbero anche fare qualcosa di meno materiale e più radicale, come suggeriva Cory Doctorow: The EU could retaliate here by imposing tit-for-tat tariffs on US exports to the EU, which would make everything Europeans buy from America 25% more expensive. This is a very weird way to punish the USA. On the other hand, now that Trump has announced that the terms of US free trade deals are optional (for the US, at least), there's no reason not to ***delete Article 6 of the EUCD, and all the other laws that prevent European companies from jailbreaking iPhones and making their own App Stores (minus Apple's 30% commission), as well as ad-blockers for Facebook and Instagram's apps (which would zero out EU revenue for Meta), and, of course, jailbreaking tools for Xboxes, Teslas, and every make and model of every American car, so European companies could offer service, parts, apps, and add-ons for them.*** When Jeff Bezos launched Amazon, his war-cry was "your margin is my opportunity." US tech companies have built up insane margins based on the IP provisions required in the free trade treaties it signed with the rest of the world. It's time to delete those IP provisions and throw open domestic competition that attacks the margins that created the fortunes of oligarchs who sat behind Trump on the inauguration dais. It's time to bring back the indomitable hacker spirit that the Bill Gateses of the world have been trying to extinguish since the days of the "open letter to hobbyists." The tech sector built a 10 foot high wall around its business, then the US government convinced the rest of the world to ban four-metre ladders. Lift the ban, unleash the ladders, free the world! ...ma al potere in Europa c'è la stessa classe dirigente che ha preferito far morire più gente piuttosto che sollevare temporaneamente i brevetti sui vaccini. Quindi preferirà, come d'uso, le auto-sanzioni a danno dei propri cittadini (o sudditi?). Sui monopoli, le oligarchie sono tutte dalla stessa parte. Io invece preferirei essere smentita. A presto, MCP