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This is getting ridiculous. The EU is waging a protectionist war on US tech companies. The US should ban all EU produced cars from the US until the EU figures

• thenaturalist 4y ago
  While I am by no means a fan of GDPR and this behavior by, especially in Germany, tiny federal data protection agencies spouting toxic, perfectionist legal interpretations onto entrepreneurs for mostly making a name for themselves... You do realize that there is a fair share of protectionism alive and well in the US as well, right? Probably not the most productive way to argue to start a tit for tat comparison, let's just be honest withourselves that everyone kinda does it in areas where they lag behind (digital in EU, some engineering, cars in the US).
• jillesvangurp 4y ago
  It's a war on casual privacy invasion by US companies that can't be bothered to pay attention to what's happening in a legal sense in key markets that are important to them (from a revenue point of view). There are plenty of US companies that get a lot of revenue from the EU market. Including some big names like Azure, Amazon, etc. And they aren't being banned but they are being forced to comply with locally applicable law. As they should. As for cars, the US has already forced many EU based car manufacturers to produce in the US. So, when it comes to protectionism, the US is way ahead of you.