Last week approval by the UE of the digital markets law was reported, which for many is just another piece of news that does not offer greater care. The fact that governments begin the path to regulate and control search engines or internet browsers is transcendental since this (internet) is the central axis of world development in all aspects.
It is true that the Internet does not have an owner, or at least that is what the theory says, what it does have are administrators and the United States strategically handed over its control in 2016 to ICANN, a mixed public-private body in theory autonomous, which monitors by the operation of the system and could be seen as the Almighty of the same.
And it is there, where other governments such as the European bloc have expressed their disagreement and launched an offensive to "control those who control us."
With the digital markets law, the UE intends to give the status of a company regulated by the state to Google, Yahoo or any other search engine, as well as to social networks, to keep them close.
Facebook received billionaire sanctions last year when it was discovered that it used the information collected to profit by selling it in a fractional way to anyone who wants to advertise there, since it knows the likes, their environment, their family, their movements and even the emotional situation of everything (a) the one who interacts there.
The same creator of this Zuckerberg network, started a Challenge to use an application created by them so that whoever wanted to take a picture, run the app and see what it would be like in 10, 20 or 40 years.
Zuckerberg was the first to run the app on his image and weeks later the game had gone viral, which turned out to be just an ingenious maneuver to teach the artificial intelligence program how human faces behaved to perfect the facial recognition system and that he stole billions of faces and that now rest somewhere; but just like with vaccines, no one bothered to look into it.
It is known that social networks have raised and lowered governments, and the UE is aware, wars are now fought in many scenarios and the virtual one is one of them. For its part, China, in its 100-year plan, has won the space race by far. Just a week ago it coupled its third module, to which the West has not made any noise, nor has it reported on the internet that already works on that continent. and that it will be the second internet - so to speak - for those who do not want to use the existing one and compete with the United States in handling information and espionage for anyone.
In fact, this internet is what supports the search engine for Huawei phones, banned by the United States and which are no longer marketed in many countries around the world because Google does not operate in them.
The Chinese internet has been the response of the Asian giant to the refusal of the United States to transfer control for 14 years as the G8 countries had agreed. With the digital markets law, the UE intends to give the status of a company regulated by the state to google, yahoo or any other search engine, as well as to social networks, to keep them close and, incidentally, its controlled citizens for the sake of security for all
But how would it affect the Games of Luck and Chance industry?
As I usually say, it depends on the lens through which you look, in my opinion, the non-censorship of apps, whatever their operating system, could favor small companies that are looking for their space in the industry. It would encourage the entry of digital banks and virtual gateways that would facilitate transactions, which raises a question: are the bets of the former and the transactions of the latter legal? , it will also encourage the already flourishing industry of online games with all the derivatives that have been and will be.
The list of pros and cons could be extended, but what is true is that I do not see this law at all holy, finally the internet is supposed to be free, but it is not, everything is given there in exchange for seeing the man fall into a punch bowl and get your phone wet and that makes us happy… but there is someone behind, the big brother, collecting and archiving that moment, to sell us more and the price will be paid in the long term.
In the future it could be an internet at the service of the highest bidder, because now it has two gentlemen to serve.
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