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I disagree. The only difference between the EU regulatory landscape and the US is the EU cares much more about end-consumer protections. They work the same but

I disagree. The only difference between the EU regulatory landscape and the US is the EU cares much more about end-consumer protections. They work the same but in backwards directions: the EU starts with the end-consumer and works out how to implement that in the private sector. The US starts with the impact to the private sector and works out how that can help end-consumers. This means sometimes the EU will pass regulations that are difficult or abstract to implement. And this means the US will miss obvious regulations because they can't gauge the business impact. The current FTC is attempting to actually enforce some of these more obvious regulations now, and they're facing a lot of push back from the American private sector. Blocking huge mergers that monopolize the free market, disallowing one-sided contract clauses, banning outright lying to consumers... these are obvious, to me. It's been shocking just how much resistance they face.

detourdog 2y ago
I consider myself very pro-consumer but I also tend towards pro-creator. I think the EU is starting to veer towards stagnation by limiting technology to what already exists. I do think the EU has a common vision. I'm sure if a common vision drives the USA. I think it's more chaotic until an incumbent establishes a critical mass. I believe the influence only lasts as long as the mass holds. I think using competition regulation to create equity is misguided. I believe incumbents become dominant and focused on narrower goals. This narrowing of thinking is more likely in my eyes to cause a USA company to fall from dominance. Microsoft and ATT the monopolists I was raised on were definitely dominant. I having being using computers since the 1970s and the only Microsoft OS based computer I have ever owned wasn an OrangePC 486DX2 card that lived inside a PowerMac G3. I used for probably close to a decade to compile software for windows distribution of Mac developed software. I of course stayed as far away from corporate America which was Windows crazy. My point is that any creator that feels they are being held back by a platform vendor just needs to re-arrange their thinking until they are free of that thought. There are plenty of opportunities in the USA to do whatever you want market share be damned.
- consteval 2y ago
  I also agree the EU is veering towards stagnation, but rather because their competition is US tech companies which have, truly, no rules. Like... no rules at all. This means you can provide cheaper services by, say, stealing data. And you can protect yourself from lawsuits by making someone "sign" something. And, worse comes to worse and you're down on your luck, you can always aggregate the data and sell it to law enforcement for a pretty penny. While we're here, go ahead and implement the addictive tactics casino's use into your app. > There are plenty of opportunities in the USA to do whatever you want market share be damned Yeah, to a scary degree. I mean you can just make a company to collude on prices. That's what RealPage does, and they're getting away with it. Not just them though - every industry has one of those. Or you can just decide to give people music without a license. That's what Spotify did. Or maybe you can just sell ad space for political campaigns. Wait, aren't there laws on that? Apparently not - if you're a tech company, you can do whatever the fuck you want, whenever you want! We haven't really decided if this is a good thing. The EU pre-emptively is saying "yeah not good". We're still mulling it over. So we're ahead now, but who knows if it will stay this way.
  - detourdog 2y ago
    One could devise a way to collude on prices. That seems to be a waste of free thought. I was thinking the best way to pursue technology development in the USA is to find problems outside the chattering class of current trends.

detourdog 2y ago

I consider myself very pro-consumer but I also tend towards pro-creator. I think the EU is starting to veer towards stagnation by limiting technology to what already exists. I do think the EU has a common vision. I'm sure if a common vision drives the USA. I think it's more chaotic until an incumbent establishes a critical mass. I believe the influence only lasts as long as the mass holds. I think using competition regulation to create equity is misguided. I believe incumbents become dominant and focused on narrower goals. This narrowing of thinking is more likely in my eyes to cause a USA company to fall from dominance. Microsoft and ATT the monopolists I was raised on were definitely dominant. I having being using computers since the 1970s and the only Microsoft OS based computer I have ever owned wasn an OrangePC 486DX2 card that lived inside a PowerMac G3. I used for probably close to a decade to compile software for windows distribution of Mac developed software. I of course stayed as far away from corporate America which was Windows crazy. My point is that any creator that feels they are being held back by a platform vendor just needs to re-arrange their thinking until they are free of that thought. There are plenty of opportunities in the USA to do whatever you want market share be damned.

consteval 2y ago
I also agree the EU is veering towards stagnation, but rather because their competition is US tech companies which have, truly, no rules. Like... no rules at all. This means you can provide cheaper services by, say, stealing data. And you can protect yourself from lawsuits by making someone "sign" something. And, worse comes to worse and you're down on your luck, you can always aggregate the data and sell it to law enforcement for a pretty penny. While we're here, go ahead and implement the addictive tactics casino's use into your app. > There are plenty of opportunities in the USA to do whatever you want market share be damned Yeah, to a scary degree. I mean you can just make a company to collude on prices. That's what RealPage does, and they're getting away with it. Not just them though - every industry has one of those. Or you can just decide to give people music without a license. That's what Spotify did. Or maybe you can just sell ad space for political campaigns. Wait, aren't there laws on that? Apparently not - if you're a tech company, you can do whatever the fuck you want, whenever you want! We haven't really decided if this is a good thing. The EU pre-emptively is saying "yeah not good". We're still mulling it over. So we're ahead now, but who knows if it will stay this way.
- detourdog 2y ago
  One could devise a way to collude on prices. That seems to be a waste of free thought. I was thinking the best way to pursue technology development in the USA is to find problems outside the chattering class of current trends.