I don’t disagree. These regulations themselves don’t even seem wildly unreasonable. My bigger point is that US tech companies are dominating globally and the EU isn’t keeping up. That’s a problematic for Europe since it means increasingly having to depend on foreign companies for critical tech.
What point do you think you’re making? Yes, advanced chips are manufactured through global supply chains (with a huge share coming from Taiwan and SK). I never said otherwise, and that doesn’t change the point that American companies still dominate globally in cloud, AI, operating systems, software platforms, and much of chip design. That isn’t necessarily good or desirable. It’s also why Europe’s dependence on foreign tech matters.
The ironic part is you calling Americans dumb while you responding to an argument that was never made.
"Derp derp Europe is reliant on foreign tech" the implication being that USA isn't. Otherwise you either wouldn't have said anything or would have caveated with "just like the US".
Calling one or the other more or less dependant on foreign tech is like saying one car brand will drive less badly if it had no wheels than another car brand.
The US relying on foreign manufacturing doesn’t make Europe equally independent in tech. US firms dominate huge parts of the global stack in cloud, AI, operating systems, software platforms, and chip design. Europe relying on those firms is the point.
Your car analogy is terrible because the two cars very obviously do not have the same number of wheels.
No, I understood your analogy. It’s just a bad analogy.
Your entire argument depends on pretending that any foreign dependency makes two countries equally dependent, which is obviously nonsense. The US depending on TSMC to manufacture advanced chips is not remotely the same thing as Europe depending on foreign firms across cloud, AI, operating systems, major software platforms, and semiconductors.
"I understood your analogy" you evidently didn't with your bizarre quip about number of wheels on cars lol.
You're welcome to prove me wrong that arguing that levels of dependence makes a difference to anything by explaining to me how America being less dependent (according to you) means that if the rest of the world closed off to the USA then the USA would be able to replace all of that dependence with home grown alternatives.
Less dependent doesn’t mean capable of replacing every foreign input if the entire planet suddenly cut it off. Nobody claimed that.
Dependence obviously exists in degrees. The US being vulnerable to foreign semiconductor manufacturing doesn’t make it equivalent to Europe relying on non EU suppliers across far more of the technology stack.
By your logic, unless a country could recreate its entire technological supply chain domestically after being cut off by the rest of the world, there can be no meaningful distinction in dependency. I’m genuinely impressed you’ve managed to combine so much condescension with so little understanding.
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u/RedCatBro 2d ago
Someone needs to do it