p3x.deSwedish government wants to strengthen ties with American tech giants
“The Swedish government wants to strengthen ties with US tech giants, despite the Trump administration’s potential influence over these companies. This is according to Minister for Public Administration Erik Slottner (KD) in Ny Teknik. “What is happening in the US is rather proof that we need to have a strong relationship with these tech companies – perhaps even stronger than we have today. Europe is an important market for them, and they are very keen to have a good relationship with us.” He mentions Google, for example, as a partner he wants to continue to have on his digitalization council.”
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lime!get these idiots out of government in september, please.
also, in the full interview in ny teknik he mentions something interesting: he believes sweden should be less dependent on american cloud services. so increased trade, less… usage. i don’t understand how this man thinks. or if he does at all.
Lot of talk about data, deregulation, and ai. I think more trade involves selling welfare records of various kinds to tech companies.
yeah, weaken national integrity for the sake of “progress”. standard stuff.
This is called corruption. They need to be prosecuted to their ass and beyond, for collaborating with fascists.
Meanwhile neighbouring Norway is working on how to resist enshittification: https://www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree
In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it. The report shows how this phenomenon affects both consumers and society at large, but that it is possible to turn the tide.
Makes total sense, of course you want a good relationship with those good companies that never break laws, don’t secretly lobby to have laws changed in their favour, don’t evade their taxes, and definitely have a positive impact on the wellbeing of all citizens. Good companies like that don’t brainwash or bribe people, they are our friends. Go Sweden, Go!
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One more out of many, many reasons to vote Tidöavtalet out in September…
*Tidölaget
Context for those not keeping up with Sweden: It’s run by idiots at the moment, as the billionaire coalition did really well at the previous election.
This guy is a Christan Democrat (KD). His party is in government alongside the “Moderates” and the “Liberals”, which is both liberal conservative parties running on platforms of economic liberalism and lower taxes. They’re in power because of the Swedish Democrats, aka the right wing lunatics, who rode on a wave of xenophobia last election and gained more than 20% of the vote.
So yeah, nothing surprising about this.
The next election in Sweden is in September. Hopefully things will improve then. The Swedish Democrats are still polling at over 20% and it is not looking particularly promising at the moment.
Geez and thought we had it bad in Finland with Orpo’s government…
At least Finns don’t seem likely to elect the right wing parties again here
Social Democrats being the largest party by vote but still not in majority when it comes to ruling because of alliances between idiot parties. Pretty sad.
Same thing happened (and is still happening) in the Netherlands and Germany.
Quite annoying innit
Why does the title of the source imoly the opposite, that they are looking to lower the dependency on cloud services.
But that is not the title of the article, and the omni summary appears correct. Very strange
I got curious and got the original article at NyTeknik. It is mostly about investments into AI, but very little substantial in the article. The article is a result of an interview.
The government wants to keep a closer dialog with the hyperscalers, but have escalated their stand on digital sovereignty a step up from ”Huh? That’s theoretical” on being hit by digital sanctions to ”taking a serious look” post Greenland.
I have the feeling Omni is increasing their use of LLM’s for their summarizations. Expect more incoming slop.
Fucking techbro idiots. 100% that these people are corrupt and sold out. They need to be fired and considered a national security threat.
Sounds like a absolutely terrible proof for drawing that conclusion.
read the room, mate
In regards to this party or that in government, I am pretty sure it doesn’t matter. They are all pretty much tech illiterate and are inclined to listen to what the large corps tend to recommend.
@DreasNil
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I wonder what his stock portfolio looks like?