German speaking. I'm seeing some defenders of this (and other EU IT regulation attempts). I used to think the same way in times of GDPR: 1. How do we as tech g

German speaking. I'm seeing some defenders of this (and other EU IT regulation attempts). I used to think the same way in times of GDPR: 1. How do we as tech geeks believe that we're somewhat special and won't ever get regulated given that Software is eating the world. 2. I trust the EU and believe we should push things forward. 3. If they get it wrong, they will monitor and fix it (boy this is so cute, me 6 years ago). 4. We cannot allow anymore having BigTech invade all our industries, spy on and buy/copycat our local competition killing our economy long-term. Boy was I wrong! All we have are cookie-banners everywhere, legal insecurity and legal battles initiated by third-class law firms crawling the web for the quick buck, understaffed courts that are overwhelmed with cases and BigTech with their big law departments having almost no problem with all that; in fact it's helping them a lot. In addition, EU is already showing attempts to put even more control over its citizens, like chat control which is essentially the pipe dream of old Stasi majors and don't forget that EU people started working on a governmentally controlled DNS server, currently as an opt-in, but it's a matter of time when they will start requiring orgs and citizens to use it. 5 years from now, we will see that we didn't catch up with BigTech, we will just have local "innovators" who essentially resell Google/AWS/MS/OpenAI stuff. They will put more and more regulation pressure on their citizens "for the good" and we're just a few bad decisions away from the perfect politically controlled digital dystopia. They don't know what they're doing, and they're even excited doing it.