These laws do not ban businesses, they ban business practices. And consumers often win. E.g. laws to ban the business practice of just dumping toxic waste into

These laws do not ban businesses, they ban business practices. And consumers often win. E.g. laws to ban the business practice of just dumping toxic waste into rivers because it's cheaper were hugely successful - at least in places were they were enforced. On the other hand, there is a danger of regulatory capture, which has to be considered as well... The GDPR does not ban Google, and it does not ban analytics. But, according to recent court rulings, it bans the business practice of Google Analytics to collect and transfer data to the US - which isn't considered to be a place with "adequate" privacy laws - and other places without prior user consent. Google could potentially come up with ways to make a Google Analytics that does abide by the law, but so far they choose not to. Maybe the changes that would be required would cut severely into revenues, or even make (free) GA cost-prohibitive, but this is in line with environmental protections killing off certain products/businesses that got too expensive when they had to dispose of their toxic waste properly and in a way that doesn't poison people and the environment.