> The EU often imposes fines mere weeks or days after compliance deadlines pass, suggesting this kind of extraction is a feature, not a bug, of the regulatory r

> The EU often imposes fines mere weeks or days after compliance deadlines pass, suggesting this kind of extraction is a feature, not a bug, of the regulatory regime. This argument is strange to me. If a local road changes its speed limit and on the same day the new limit takes effect, I get pulled over for driving too fast, that seems expected? I guess I could see the argument that the companies don’t have enough time to make the necessary changes to adhere to the law, but then you should be advocating for the law taking effect at a later date rather than regulators being slow to issue fines when they are in full effect.