Ireland's new law proposes to all but do away with social media companies' algorithms. As most global tech companies are HQ'd there, it will be the law they have to follow in Europe.

Lugh · edit-2 7 months ago

Ireland's new law proposes to all but do away with social media companies' algorithms. As most global tech companies are HQ'd there, it will be the law they have to follow in Europe.

@echo64@lemmy.world · 7 months ago

This is the same Ireland that tried to sue the EU for making big tech companies pay the taxes they are supposed to pay, because Ireland gets a lot of job generation from being an ultra low tax for big tech companies area.

It’s very unlikely anything that would make big tech leave would pass in Ireland.

Ireland's new law proposes to all but do away with social media companies' algorithms. As most global tech companies are HQ'd there, it will be the law they have to follow in Europe.

Ireland's new law proposes to all but do away with social media companies' algorithms. As most global tech companies are HQ'd there, it will be the law they have to follow in Europe.

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