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Comment by ergonaught | Hacker News Reader

EU continues to demonstrate willful and wild delusion regarding technology. “Big Tech” and “Ad Tech” need reigning in, for sure, but the EU seems intent upon finding the worst possible means of understanding a problem then mandating the worst possible solutions to their misunderstandings. They’re somehow even worse than the USA’s legal/judicial systems in this respect. Insane.

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this is not fair in the slightest. At worst this will make for a fascinating and insightful experiment that will inform many future policy decisions

HN: all these closed silos are bad, they should be open

EU: mandates that at least a part of the silos such as messaging should be open

HN: no, not like that

HN != a single, heavily downvoted comment on HN

This is called exaggeration. Possibly even rhetorical hyperbole.

HN is often too literal though :)

I know you were joking. I meant my comment in a lighthearted way too. Maybe I should use more emoticons :)

Yeah, it's the bane of written communication: it's hard to convey emotions properly

It’s much easier to understand when you recognize that practically none of the big tech companies are European, and their own tax laws have been weaponized by member states to allow foreign companies to extract capital while paying little in taxes. What they’d like is for more European companies to have a better chance in the market, but they can’t compete without regulatory assistance.

It actually doesn’t matter whether GDPR, messenger interoperability, standardized charger plugs, open payment processing, etc. have the stated benefits for consumers because they have the intended benefit for government.

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