> The EU braintrust brought us stupid cookie banners The EU didnt bring cookie banners. They corps that want to track you did that. > Italy and presumably oth

> The EU braintrust brought us stupid cookie banners The EU didnt bring cookie banners. They corps that want to track you did that. > Italy and presumably other countries are trying to ban AI FUD > a single fine was 4b so thats 2% of their budget annually and of course in aggregate a lot of money. That was the largest fine, its hardly typical. In order to stop paying fines they just need to stop doing their evil shit in the EU - let them keep their evil domestic then its not an issue. > It just seems like Europe doesn't have the culture or business incentives to succeed at tech so they try to extract a pound of flesh. We have many of our own successful tech companies. They arent as large as your megacorps because they dont need to be. Note that we also fine our own companies when they abuse peoples privacy.