- Donald Trump threatens Europe on behalf of large technology.
- Donald Trump also tells Big Tech to see its step.
- Does Trump mean both things? Or maybe one thing at one time, and something different in something else? maybe.
Reality: The Trump administration is fighting with European organizers, on the pretext that it is very harsh for American technology companies.
Also fact: The Trump administration says it will organize American technology companies because it “has a lot of strength.”
This is a confusing, but accurate summary, for the relationship of new management to large technology. On the one hand, he is preparing for a project with European legislators who punish the likes of Apple, Google and Meta due to the anti -monopoly violations. On the other hand, large technology companies warn that they will see signs that platforms are behaving badly.
We have seen both sides of this site last week, via notes from the administration. On Thursday, Trump’s Federal Trade Committee announcedInquiries about technical control“It aims to” technology platforms [that] Rejection or deterioration of users’ access to services based on the content of their speech or their affiliation. “
platform Casey Newton speculates that FTC’s efforts “seem designed to discover stories chosen cherries that prefer a political party,” and this seems true for me. I will definitely be surprised if FTC spends a lot of time looking at the way Twitter/X has turned into a largely right under Elon Musk.
But a day later, the Team Trump team offered to large technology companies an opportunity for something they really want: relief from the European regulations, in the form of a note that the federal government will be. “Defend American companies from extortion“
The short summary of this: Trump says it will threaten the customs tariff against countries that use “taxes, fines, practices and policies followed by foreign governments on American companies.”
This is what exactly asking technology leaders, including Mark Zuckerberg, to do Trump (and why Zuckerberg and his descriptive representatives indicate European regulations as “almost a tariff” over the past few weeks).
One way to look at my different technical message that comes out of the White House Trump can be a basic island and a stick: we will fight Europeans on your behalf – but it is better to get home at home.
But there is another lens that can simply be about different messages for different fans: Trump tells men who run some of the largest companies in the world – those who line up behind him in his inauguration – that he will work on their behalf. Meanwhile, the Koleh tells Trump that they are continuing to pressure large technology, just as they promised. Like last month JD VANCE interview with CBS ‘Face The Nation “When the vice president announced that “we mainly believe that large technology has a lot of strength”, and that companies need “to stop engaging in censorship.”
As always, we will need to know what Trump et al is doing already because announcing the investigations and definitions that are threatened by one thing – follow -up is something else. Seeing where the administration puts its energy will work.
