A very central difference that the OP misses: Technologists generally accept that technologies are tools that can be used for good, and less good, or even evil.

A very central difference that the OP misses: Technologists generally accept that technologies are tools that can be used for good, and less good, or even evil. Many policy makers (especially in the EU) seem to think that policy can somehow reserve the benefits of technological progress for uses they deem positive for society.