Ancestors

Written by John Gruber on 2025-01-14 at 14:28

The EU sacked its crusading grandstanding duo of Margrethe Vestager and Thierry Breton before the U.S. election, so it’s not entirely or even mostly about Trump. They’re just coming to their senses that a radical DMA interpretation isn’t going to change these companies, it would just turn the EU into more of a technological backwater than it already is.

https://www.techmeme.com/250114/p1#a250114p1

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Written by Olivier Roux (moose) on 2025-01-14 at 17:28

@gruber Breton and Vestager where not sacked, they were “not renewed” by the new administration. Mostly because Von Der Layen hated their guts and saw them as potential competitors.

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Written by John Gruber on 2025-01-15 at 03:07

@otolithe Wrong: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/09/16/breton-resigns

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Written by Olivier Roux (moose) on 2025-01-15 at 07:00

@gruber not really: he resigned because he knew he wouldn’t be renewed. Anyway, EU politics: never assign any purpose to them other than petty power struggles.

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