Can Europe End Its Dependence on US Tech? w/ Aline Blankertz - Tech Won’t Save Us

Economists love scale. Start-ups love scaling up (and so do investors). Politicians love large-scale, global stuff. And in all things digital, economies of scale are assumed to be a common feature of markets - high fixed cost, low marginal cost, network effects, yada yada yada. BUT: There is a very

Calls for "digital sovereignty" are still everywhere. They are a central narrative of contemporary European economic policies, they serve as powerful justifications for corporations to call for subsidies and they are also omnipresent among progressive digital policy NGOs and activists. Aline has alr