> The western economic environment countinually gets more and more structured favouring large firms, encouraging large scale merging, which usually generates th

> The western economic environment countinually gets more and more structured favouring large firms, encouraging large scale merging, which usually generates the type of large oligopoly companies who most often does the things that cause regulations to get created, then imposed on smaller firms. This is where socialism differs from communism - in socialism you have big privately owned companies, whereas in communism these are state owned. Everything else is more or less the same. Europe is currently under transition from group of mostly free mostly capitalist countries into full retard socialist authoritarian regime. Regardless of that, GDPR is a very good thing, shame it has only been introduced now and not 10 years ago.