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I'd imagine someone in EU is trying to push out its own version of Tiktok/Facebook/Twitter/etc as they are very important in national security (any software that can impact millions of people).

TBH I'm always puzzled why EU never managed to push out its own social media software. Maybe just because I don't know?



There is no single large market in Europe, everything is fractured by language and different cultures in each country. Monetizing it is also difficult.


Because the EU seems to think it can just regulate such things into existence.

I find it baffling that people seem to attribute miracle superpowers to an entity whose prime achievement these days is tethered caps.


Until now, EU countries saw US as alligned with them, so saw no need to wall off US social media and start their own, with their own propaganda, like Russia and China did.




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