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What I love most about the EU and Europeans on this site is that they think that all these regulations will mostly hurt companies like Google and Facebook, and

What I love most about the EU and Europeans on this site is that they think that all these regulations will mostly hurt companies like Google and Facebook, and sure they'll be hurt. But the US is the largest market for most US companies, so they're unable to really hurt them like they want to. Instead, the people most affected are European companies that become successful enough for those onerous regulations to apply. There was a Hacker News thread about a new research paper that showed that GDPR is hurting European investment, and there were plenty of Europeans in that thread saying "Good, stop using my data." Like really? Wouldn't it be better to stop data usage without hurting investment? It's such a self own.

mcv 8y ago
> What I love most about the EU and Europeans on this site is that they think that all these regulations will mostly hurt companies like Google and Facebook On which site? HN? Many Europeans here are well aware this will mostly hurt smaller sites and independent content creators. Many MEPs seem to hope that European newspapers will get some of Google's money, but I honestly don't see how that's going to happen. GDPR is a different issue. It's less unreasonable and better intentioned, but the implementation is incredibly annoying. I'd rather see browsers handle this for me in a way I can easily control. EU data protection laws are excellent. Far better than those of the US, which do pretty much the complete opposite.
- macspoofing 8y ago
  >Many MEPs seem to hope that European newspapers will get some of Google's money, I'm surprised Google News doesn't stick ads on news results and do some sort of 70/30 profit sharing like YouTube. That's the best way for newspapers to profit from a Google Listing. Instead Google News sidesteps copyright issues by not monetizing news results at all. >EU data protection laws are excellent. Far better than those of the US, which do pretty much the complete opposite Forget laws. Are things better in practice? Because people tend to get enamoured with regulations because they sound great (I mean, who doesn't want low emission, high efficiency cars in 5 years) that are disconnected with reality.

mcv 8y ago

> What I love most about the EU and Europeans on this site is that they think that all these regulations will mostly hurt companies like Google and Facebook On which site? HN? Many Europeans here are well aware this will mostly hurt smaller sites and independent content creators. Many MEPs seem to hope that European newspapers will get some of Google's money, but I honestly don't see how that's going to happen. GDPR is a different issue. It's less unreasonable and better intentioned, but the implementation is incredibly annoying. I'd rather see browsers handle this for me in a way I can easily control. EU data protection laws are excellent. Far better than those of the US, which do pretty much the complete opposite.

macspoofing 8y ago
>Many MEPs seem to hope that European newspapers will get some of Google's money, I'm surprised Google News doesn't stick ads on news results and do some sort of 70/30 profit sharing like YouTube. That's the best way for newspapers to profit from a Google Listing. Instead Google News sidesteps copyright issues by not monetizing news results at all. >EU data protection laws are excellent. Far better than those of the US, which do pretty much the complete opposite Forget laws. Are things better in practice? Because people tend to get enamoured with regulations because they sound great (I mean, who doesn't want low emission, high efficiency cars in 5 years) that are disconnected with reality.