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  • Europe has ‘lost the internet’, warns Belgium’s cyber security chief

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  • LOL, this poor guy...the only sane person in an insane asylum. How bad is it? Only about 4% of global cloud infrastructure capacity is European‑owned, with most European governments, firms, and citizens relying on US hyperscalers.

    More background:

    Average investment in telecom and digital infrastructure per operator in Europe is less than half that in the US, with a total connectivity investment gap to 2030 estimated at at least €174bn and likely over €200bn to hit EU “Digital Decade” gigabit and 5G targets.

    EU telecom policy has historically favored many national and sub‑national operators, leaving Europe with over 100 mobile operators and only about 5m subscribers per operator on average, versus roughly 107m in the US and 467m in China, which undermines scale and returns on capital for big 5G and fiber

    Fragmented capital markets (27 different regimes) and shallower venture and growth equity pools make it harder to scale home‑grown cloud, AI, and semiconductor players compared with US deep capital markets and Chinese state‑directed finance. roll‑outs

    The EU is a regulatory superpower (GDPR, Digital Markets Act, AI Act), but multiple analyses argue that “over‑regulation” is overstated; business surveys show lack of skilled staff, energy costs, and uncertainty rank higher as barriers to investment than regulation, which tends to come fourth and often from national, not EU, rules.

    The more specific critique is that Europe leaned heavily on competition and privacy law without pairing them with an ambitious infrastructure and industrial build‑out, leaving it as a regulator of US platforms rather than an owner of its own stack.

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  • The cost of nationalism. The nostalgia for their little nation statelets is costing Europeans their sovereignty. Which is ironic as the little nationalists are all about sovereignty but in reality help outside powers to colonialise Europe.

    It's time for an emotionally painful but necessary goodbye to the European nation state. Europe needs a single capital and service market where startups and Tech companies can scale up as rapidly as in the US and China and pool capital from across the continent following a single set of rules rather than being bogged down with 27 mini markets.

    If this can't be done at an EU level then a coalition of the willing should go ahead. According to a study the remaining internal barriers in the EU are equivalent to a 44% tariff on intra EU trade. Worse than anything Donald Trump has imposed. The first countries to achieve this will create immense additional prosperity.

    European nationalism is Europe's biggest threat to its prosperity and sovereignty, worse than Russia, China and the US combined.

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  • There is no lack of money, brains, IP or will. This is nearly entirely a legislative and administrative issue. Make it more compelling to invest in startups - and in particular to work at one - and make it easier to grow a small business across Europe. Taxation especially closely followed by an administrative patchwork of regulations for small businesses is creating this issue. The incredible European entrepreneurs I know feel forced to grow their business in the U.S. because it is just too slow and cumbersome to do in the EU. This is not at all the priority in Europe it should be. There are some individual member state smallish initiatives- nearly every state has one - but by and large those are mostly marketing. Admirable to try and ask for attention but they do not address the underlying issues. And those issues are 100% within the control of EU and member state governments. There are entrepreneurs in Europe - good ones even - they just need to be empowered. There is plenty of money too. It just needs to be more attractive to invest in startups.

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  • Here are a few (recommended) reactions on the site of the FT itself (I could add all of them but there is no way to add a pdf here):

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  • You could start with going through all the comments on various forums (not just Lemmy) where people have written about user experience (UX) problems and place those issues in a quadrant (easy or difficult to implement vs major or minor impact on the UX). The immediate priority is of course those that are easy to implement with major impact on the UX, meanwhile also picking up some of those with lesser impact on the UX. In a second step you select two-three issues that are major but more difficult to implement. I noted today an article in The Guardian on how Reddit is strongly growing in the UK. So there is a sense of urgency.

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  • A visual editor to begin with. There are a lot of posts complaining about the user experience. They have to be analysed in order to create a list of priority interventions. If there is a budget a user experience study with users and potential users would be a good idea.

  • The EU is a “digital colony of the US”. This Italian is trying to change that, with some success.

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  • FYI: I posted this also on Reddit where it gathered 1.4k upvotes and lots of comments. Then it was removed without any explanation. 😡

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  • Europe has ‘lost the internet’, warns Belgium’s cyber security chief

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  • No, my background is in user experience. Hence my comment on the interface design.

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  • I hope that is sarcastic remark. 🙄

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  • The lack of visual editor arises with the web version on lemmy.world and with the Mlem app. I have not checked anything else. (And I don't see it as my role to start a kickstarter campaign).

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  • Yes, but I would like to see a visual editor. Now a bold is shown as a double asterisk. A link is a mixture of square and round brackets. You can click on Preview, but to edit it, you have to leave it again.

  • The EU is a “digital colony of the US”. This Italian is trying to change that, with some success.

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