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 al

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.