Narrative: EU vs US Tech

Written: October 3, 2017

This narrative, will like all the others on the site, soon have a narrative essay in this spot. For now, this serves as a placeholder. At a basic level, the EU vs US Tech narrative is one that’s grown in prominence over the last couple of years as the EU and its member states have taken legal or other action against a variety of big US tech companies including Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and others. The narrative around this set of events is very different between Europeans and Americans, with the former seeing it as being largely about big foreign tech companies which dominate markets but pay little tax and operate with little regulatory oversight, while the latter see it more as protectionism and retaliation for the far greater success of US tech companies relative to their European counterparts.