Fwiw the term you want isn’t malicious compliance, which isn’t a real thing. It’s willful non-compliance. Willful non compliance is potentially a criminal offen

Fwiw the term you want isn’t malicious compliance, which isn’t a real thing. It’s willful non-compliance. Willful non compliance is potentially a criminal offense and requires providing intent or conspiracy. It’s much more likely they’ll just be found non compliant. Apples strategy here is baffling. They’re not unfamiliar with regulation and how to manage regulators. This is really not a good strategy they’re doing and it’ll make everything worse for them at every step. The fact they unveiled their plans publicly without a green light from the regulator means they’re doing some sort of weird game of chicken. IMO they’re underestimating the motivation of the EU to try to break US tech megacorps grip to try to create a place that an EU tech megacorp might emerge. I don’t know that it’s a very sensible strategy as any EU megacorp will also be subject to onerous requirements, but will have to bootstrap in that regime. Also until the EU fixed its banking and investment structures, pay improves, and any number of other head winds abate, I wouldn’t expect attacking FB, Google, and Apple with regulatory burden will be meaningfully helpful to any tech company in the EU.