It's not so much incompetence as (maybe misguided) confidence. Google and other big IT corpos seem to be operating under the assumption that government action

It's not so much incompetence as (maybe misguided) confidence. Google and other big IT corpos seem to be operating under the assumption that government action is harmless. At most they get a moderate fine, which they can delay in courts for years, and then keep operating with minor alterations. This won't change until there is actual legislation or they are threatened with being broken.