Euro antitrust cop Margrethe Vestager to depart after decade of reining in Big Tech

Europe's top competition cop, Margrethe Vestager, will reportedly be stepping down later this year, a development certain to please the US tech firms she called to the carpet. According to the Financial Times, the poor showing of her Social Liberal party in Denmark's 2022 election means she will not get renominated for a third …

[Zippy´s Sausage Factory]

Personally, I think this is a shame, as she's done a very good job and it'll be a difficult role to step into.

Let's hope her replacement isn't a technological illiterate who keeps parroting "think of the children" to push through an anti-privacy/encryption agenda.

[Guy de Loimbard]

I echo that sentiment entirely.

Every time I hear or see an article about "Think of the children" I shudder at the sheer level of techno-illiterati that are out there trying to remove all those well though of and well fought for privacy controls.

[cd]

She's a hero

Long may you run, Margrethe Vestager.

[abend0c4]

Vestager is about as unpopular as her US counterpart

Sounds like another area in which we should be encouraging increased competition.

[bsilva66]

What is missing?

It is quite easy to see which convicted monopolist she never investigated. In fact, she even bragged of being one of the rare users of their search engine (way before AI made it almost usable).

Wonder if she'll move to Redmond now?