Brexit Dividend: Dominic Cummings wants to create a “British Google”

[Paddy]

What the F*** do the Tories have for brains. Brexit will give the UK an opportunity to create a “British Google” in competition with USA Google...

wired.co.uk/article/no-deal-brexit-state-aid-tech

[clearedforlanding]

What the F*** do the Tories have for brains. Brexit will give the UK an opportunity to create a “British Google” in competition with USA Google...

wired.co.uk/article/no-deal-brexit-state-aid-tech

Cummings likes data. The more personal the better.

No sure he knows hoe the tech sector works though.

[jamesbrown]

[TheGreenBastard]

Similar sentiment on the continent: France is ditching Google to reclaim its online independence | WIRED UK

It will never happen, Europeans (Brits included) arrogantly think they can create the environment that exists in SV, they can't, for a multitude of reasons.

[WTFH]

Similar sentiment on the continent: France is ditching Google to reclaim its online independence | WIRED UK

It will never happen, Europeans (Brits included) arrogantly think they can create the environment that exists in SV, they can't, for a multitude of reasons.

Interesting reading that, they are saying one of the reasons is the way that Cambridge Analytica (remember them?) used and manipulated data.

[jayn200]

Cummings likes data. The more personal the better.

No sure he knows hoe the tech sector works though.

Cummings probably barely know how to turn on a ******* computer. He gets credit for the work done by outsourced parties, it's quite literally ******* insane.

[WTFH]

Cummings probably barely know how to turn on a ******* computer. He gets credit for the work done by outsourced parties, it's quite literally ******* insane.

You mean just like Boris?

[DaveB]

Interesting reading past the headline, the claim that Brexit will mean we can use state subsidies to boost the tech sector is another piece of misinformation. The EU rules already appear to allow us to do what Cummings wants to do, and France and Germany both spend far more on it than we do already without falling foul of the EU.

What you can't do is spend indefinitely to prop up a failing business. What you can do is support R&D with clear spending plans that aren't just a wasteful open check book.

Got a five year plan spend £1b to support businesses to develop the underlying tech to create a rival to Google? Crack on.

Want to spend £200m a year indefinitely to subsidise a business that would otherwise fail without it? Nope, can't do that.

[Paddy]

Interesting reading past the headline, the claim that Brexit will mean we can use state subsidies to boost the tech sector is another piece of misinformation. The EU rules already appear to allow us to do what Cummings wants to do, and France and Germany both spend far more on it than we do already without falling foul of the EU.

What you can't do is spend indefinitely to prop up a failing business. What you can do is support R&D with clear spending plans that aren't just a wasteful open check book.

Got a five year plan spend £1b to support businesses to develop the underlying tech to create a rival to Google? Crack on.

Want to spend £200m a year indefinitely to subsidise a business that would otherwise fail without it? Nope, can't do that.

It will be tax payers' money going into a black-hole belonging to Cummings' mates offshore companies. In any other country they would call it corruption and be protesting on the streets.

[TheGreenBastard]

Interesting reading that, they are saying one of the reasons is the way that Cambridge Analytica (remember them?) used and manipulated data.

Of course the gov(s) don't want companies like CA shaming their intelligence gathering capabilities, they'd much rather have direct control.