There's a lot of stuff to dislike about the nuts and bolts of the GDPR. But I do wish that the U.S. would move in the general direction of protecting user data

There's a lot of stuff to dislike about the nuts and bolts of the GDPR. But I do wish that the U.S. would move in the general direction of protecting user data instead of the incredibly vague and stupid calls for "BREAK UP BIG TECH!" All of the political stuff that's happening here blithely assumes that the problems with Apple, Google, and Facebook are pretty much the same and can be solved in the same way. There's a fundamental approach here of basically, "don't get too successful." I'd rather see them approached specifically and recognize that they each present very different challenges. One of the biggest for ad-driven companies is that they're successful because of the way they use data. It's not really about how big they are. If you can regulate how people are allowed to make money off of user data effectively, that solves a huge part of the problem. There's another part of the puzzle about what exactly it means to be an anti-competitive monopoly in the modern era, but I'm actually kind of okay with that being litigated for now. The system moves slowly, but it is moving. And for people saying the current system can't account for new technology, it's worth realizing that people do recognize the need for change, and the Supreme Court just recognized that old rules about how things work need to change.