>If so, that's the strongest protectionism that EU startups could ever dream of... Sure, if you show me viable EU based alternatives to the services you mentio

>If so, that's the strongest protectionism that EU startups could ever dream of... Sure, if you show me viable EU based alternatives to the services you mentioned. As a EU based developer I, too, am cooking with water - means I manage my mailing lists with MailChimp, use Google Apps for Email, use AWS, etc. There are just no EU based alternatives to these services. As usual when it comes to internet regulation by the EU: it's not really favourable for EU based companies (except the few ex state monopolists).