> European policy debates often become Americanized because of the American domination of social media.

No it doesn't. And America doesn't dominate social media in Europe, except repeated administration scandals, paedofiles and history's largest pedo ring cover-up.

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constantius 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

America does dominate social media in Europe.

Most Europeans probably know more American politicians than they do their own, and have opinions about every American event.

During US elections it's impossible to talk to anyone without their starting to opine about things they have no control over within a minute.

American culture wars are polarising societies that share nothing with the American one.

The last thing Europe needs is more Americanisation.

	▲	felooboolooomba an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> American culture wars are polarising societies that share nothing with the American one. True, but that's because of considerable joint effort headed by the likes of Thiel, Musk, Bannon, ...

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drnick1 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Lol, Europeans are quick to adopt all the worst things from America related to tech, including social media, streaming services, proprietary software, iPhones, and random IoT garbage.

	▲	ben_w 14 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Survivorship-bias.svg Every European you meet on social media is necessarily the subset of Europeans who adopted social media. A subset of the population adopting a subset of the stuff doesn't mean adoption in general is as universal as you might assume. e.g. podcast I was listening to the other day had a German complaining about their bank, after the bank suggested they send a fax.
	▲	general1465 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Chinese adopted them too, so what is the differece?

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cindyllm 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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