> If that is your goal, OK, that's a choice, but then you can't say "oh GDPR fears were overblown". They caused exactly the problems people were predicting I f

> If that is your goal, OK, that's a choice, but then you can't say "oh GDPR fears were overblown". They caused exactly the problems people were predicting I feel like, there's nothing in my statement you can actually disagree with, so you're just expressing general frustration with the state of the world. That's fine. You can set up aggressive PII laws, you're a big boy sovereign nation. But then you will not get domestic tech giants. That's not like, my opinion, that is the reality we are in. I am describing that reality, and that the EU is unhappy with it, and your response is "Here's why we set up laws!". OK. I'm not sure what you are looking for here. We all know how you got here.