Posted on 06/16/2026 6:08:04 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
At a recent “counter-disinformation” conference at the University of Cambridge, European technologist Robin Berjon suggested that “military force” may have to be used against American tech platforms to bring them into line.
“I’m not advocating that we should go and start shooting Google just yet,” said Berjon. “But the thing is, if you want to do just regulation, you have to be willing to go all the way up to force.”
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Above all, it must be remembered that this new hostility to the tech giants, from every corner of the progressive universe both foreign and domestic, is almost entirely downstream of Silicon Valley’s relative relaxation of political censorship in the past few years. This is not merely a matter of tech, but politics – the Europeans are determined to censor their own populist-right opposition, and are furious with American tech companies for their ambivalence towards this goal.
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Signals coming over wires, encoding words and pictures, is what has sent them into such a state of apoplexy.
They couldn’t take a Waffle House even with an American Express card.
“European technologist Robin Berjon suggested that “military force” may have to be used against American tech platforms to bring them into line.”
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Into line with WHAT, exactly?
If the eurofags so much as have a zoom call regarding this subject it is doubtful that American Military forces will get to them in time.
Various iteration of Redneck would be on it in about 2 hours.
The eurofags?
Uhhh... what eurofags?
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Google’s security rent-a-cops could probably give European armies a good fight. What’s the spread?
chuckle !!!
What military force they got?
As compared to the massive US military force?
Is this pure jealousy over the inability of Europeans to produce any world dominating social media platforms like X, Facebook, etc?
Why can't this Robin Berjon go create his own tech company?
The best of Europe was killed off in WWI and WWII. They’ve never been the same since.
Lighten up, Francis.
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