A thought I had that I haven't heard elsewhere: this is the EU equivalent of the Great Firewall - an immensely powerful tool for governments to use against "for

A thought I had that I haven't heard elsewhere: this is the EU equivalent of the Great Firewall - an immensely powerful tool for governments to use against "foreign" companies that don't have the proper values. The EU would love to have a tech company that could be compared to Google, Facebook, or Tencent, but its attempts to create one by fiat (Quaero, for example) have fallen flat. The mechanism (legal rather than technical) and the claimed ideals (privacy rather than anti-pornography) are different, but the effect will be the same. Depending on your perspective, this represents a tremendous opportunity for EU-based startups. Your government will almost certainly make things very difficult for your foreign competitors. Cozy up to your local Party officials!