I know where those comments come from. It was the NYT mainly and I think Reuters or Bloomberg doing it a bit, too - they were pushing this angle that the EU is

I know where those comments come from. It was the NYT mainly and I think Reuters or Bloomberg doing it a bit, too - they were pushing this angle that the EU is doing it out of "jealousy" and nothing else. Some people have actually bought that idea. But I imagine they'd want the US government to exhibit some of that jealousy against Facebook right about now, too...especially with Facebook now announcing that they won't implement the GDPR globally. Ironically, it's the same media entities that seem to have essentially admitted they got it wrong with all the negative posts they've published against Facebook recently, and I think those sorts of articles will continue against Google and other privacy-violating companies, too, in the near future.