>China does limit what US companies can do there But the narrative is "we are not like them", "we are about freedom, free trade, respecting private property a

>China does limit what US companies can do there But the narrative is "we are not like them", "we are about freedom, free trade, respecting private property and rights". But the moment "national security" gets even tangentially involved a lot of of this goes out of the window I guess. >the EU absolutely does have the power As I said their regulation of US companies is not as extensive, and if judged by how ineffectual the cookie law is in the presence of omnipresent browser fingerprinting and actual GDPR practices by the US companies that I know of the compliance is perfunctory at best. >Like, do you not want countries to have spies or try to defend themselves from foreign spies? The position where a cross border internet company automatically a spy questions the legitimacy of internet as a communication medium. From that point of view the Chinese have been doing the right thing isolating their citizens from the foreign internet.