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Imagine a driver on the highway observing a prominent vehicle (perhaps a big truck, or a fancy sports car) systematically veering too much to the left say, at l
by DoctorOetker 2mo ago
Imagine a driver on the highway observing a prominent vehicle (perhaps a big truck, or a fancy sports car) systematically veering too much to the left say, at least according to the observing driver.
Now imagine the phenomenon where the observing driver irrationally steers to the right in protest, as if it controls the car in the distance.
In Western Europe, Big Tech is basically synonymous in the eye of the beholder to US Big Tech.
Is there a name for the phenomenon where perhaps voters, perhaps politicians enact rules that would have screwed over Big Tech Big Shots as if they were enacting US laws?
Effectively preemptively punishing local entrepreneurs for the perceived injustices committed by their colleagues across the ocean? This then feeds back into a vicious cycle of stifling local entrepreneurship, increasing transoceanic jealousy / anger towards entrepreneurs and more such laws?