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<font size="4">"Europe has turned itself into the cop on the Big Tech beat, repeatedly
enforcing its rules and hitting the industry's top <br></font></div><div><font size="4">American companies
with huge fines. That's not going to change when Joe Biden is sworn in
as US president. <br></font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Because Europe doesn't have tech
companies that can compete with Silicon Valley's big names or China's
tech champions, <br></font></div><div><font size="4">the region's response is to try to exert influence
through regulation, Eurasia Group's Peker said.The thinking: Europe is a <br></font></div><div><font size="4">huge consumer market, so it should have a hand in setting online norms. "Europe sees an opening," Peker said. In his view, <br></font></div><div><font size="4">a change in administration in the United States won't alter the calculus.</font><font size="4"> On issues like antitrust, there's a consensus in Europe <br></font></div><div><font size="4">and the United States that more should be done to rein in Big Tech.</font></div><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">
Both Republicans and Democrats in the United States are more comfortable
with the possibility of curbing Silicon Valley's power <br></font></div><div><font size="4">than they were
just a few years ago. House Democrats recently <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/06/tech/congress-big-tech-antitrust-report/index.html" target="_blank">published</a> a congressional investigation that found Amazon, <span>Apple</span> <br></font></div><div><font size="4"><span>(<span class="gmail-inlink_chart"><a href="https://money.cnn.com/quote/quote.html?symb=AAPL&source=story_quote_link" class="gmail-inlink">AAPL</a></span>)</span>, Google and Facebook hold "monopoly power" in key business segments, while the Department of Justice last month <br></font></div><div><font size="4"><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/20/tech/doj-google-antitrust-case/index.html" target="_blank">accused Google</a> of stifling competition to maintain its powerful position in the marketplace for online search."
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</div><div><br></div><div><font size="4">And why didn't Europe develop powerful tech companies like America and China Did? Are they only talented bureaucrats at this point?</font><br></div><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/12/tech/europe-tech-biden/index.html">https://edition.cnn.com/2020/11/12/tech/europe-tech-biden/index.html</a></font></div></div>