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Same with google with youtube. Good. People keep bashing EU for making innovation hard, and there are a lot of truth to it. But I welcome this kind of restri

Same with google with youtube. Good. People keep bashing EU for making innovation hard, and there are a lot of truth to it. But I welcome this kind of restrictions.

sofixa 3y ago
The EU doesn't make innovation hard, it just puts rules in place to ensure that your "innovation" cannot be abusing users' data. Nothing is stopping any of the thousands of EU companies innovating in all sorts of fields.
- dataking 3y ago
  While I agree that there is lots of innovation and talent in the EU, I think there is also an "innovation gap" with other developed economies. Here's a take from the Economist [0] but you can find similar articles from the Financial Times, Blomberg, and other similar outlets. [0] https://www.economist.com/europe/2022/02/26/europe-is-the-free-rider-continent https://www.economist.com/europe/2022/02/26/europe-is-the-fr...
  - danielscrubs 3y ago
    It is a hit piece here for example they compare a whole group to a subset: “western Europeans were a quarter poorer than Americans in 1990, and remain a quarter poorer today. ” And when they say they do less research Id argue the research is done in universities for the benefit of mankind instead of something corporations do. Latest example is Stable Diffusion developed by the CompVis group at LMU Munich. But if you ask the common man he will say it is something by OpenAI. There are really no good institutions left, only good people.
smoldesu 3y ago
> People keep bashing EU for making innovation hard, and there are a lot of truth to it. If you consider the GDPR or DMA limitations on "innovation", then I don't want you innovating.
okanat 3y ago
If it is easy, it is not innovation. You're not finding and improving a thing then. True innovation requires novelty and effort. Even smallest innovative projects require many many thoughts and redesigns until they become even an MVP. The US tech giants were coasting and amassing compound wealth without by innovating but buying the innovative companies or disregarding a basic human right: privacy. True innovation is and should be difficult and it shouldn't come at the cost of human rights that people has fought over for centuries, sometimes with their own blood.

Same with google with youtube. Good. People keep bashing EU for making innovation hard, and there are a lot of truth to it. But I welcome this kind of restrictions.

sofixa 3y ago

The EU doesn't make innovation hard, it just puts rules in place to ensure that your "innovation" cannot be abusing users' data. Nothing is stopping any of the thousands of EU companies innovating in all sorts of fields.

dataking 3y ago
While I agree that there is lots of innovation and talent in the EU, I think there is also an "innovation gap" with other developed economies. Here's a take from the Economist [0] but you can find similar articles from the Financial Times, Blomberg, and other similar outlets. [0] https://www.economist.com/europe/2022/02/26/europe-is-the-free-rider-continent https://www.economist.com/europe/2022/02/26/europe-is-the-fr...
- danielscrubs 3y ago
  It is a hit piece here for example they compare a whole group to a subset: “western Europeans were a quarter poorer than Americans in 1990, and remain a quarter poorer today. ” And when they say they do less research Id argue the research is done in universities for the benefit of mankind instead of something corporations do. Latest example is Stable Diffusion developed by the CompVis group at LMU Munich. But if you ask the common man he will say it is something by OpenAI. There are really no good institutions left, only good people.

smoldesu 3y ago

> People keep bashing EU for making innovation hard, and there are a lot of truth to it. If you consider the GDPR or DMA limitations on "innovation", then I don't want you innovating.

okanat 3y ago

If it is easy, it is not innovation. You're not finding and improving a thing then. True innovation requires novelty and effort. Even smallest innovative projects require many many thoughts and redesigns until they become even an MVP. The US tech giants were coasting and amassing compound wealth without by innovating but buying the innovative companies or disregarding a basic human right: privacy. True innovation is and should be difficult and it shouldn't come at the cost of human rights that people has fought over for centuries, sometimes with their own blood.