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GDPR isn’t about addressing monopolies. It’s about addressing privacy and data ownership.

Every tech related legislation doesn’t and shouldn’t need to so,be every tech related problem. The EU has other, non GDPR related, mechanisms to handle monopoly issues.

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My point is EU will adopt regulation that actively harms competition (such as GDPR), because they have different priorities (e.g. privacy, data ownership as you mentioned).

So to me it seems unfounded to say EU cares about market health and is not, in fact, just picking on FB and Google.

I am honestly curious what you think are examples of EU mechanisms fostering healthy markets. Maybe the MS case but that is the same “EU picks on US tech giant” genre.

Like breaking up the Samsung-Philips cartel?

I’m not sure what kind of examples you want.

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