And that's the problem: assuming by default.
How about not assuming by default? How about reading something about this? How about forming your own opinion, and not the opinion of the trillion- dollar supranational corporations?
"Meta disagrees with European regulation"
That you don't have an immediate guess at which party you are most likely to agree with?
I do and I think most people do.
I'm not about to go around spreading my uninformed opinion though. What my comment said was that I was surprised at people's kneejerk reaction that Europe must be right, especially on HN. Perhaps I should have also chided those people for commenting at all, but that's hindsight for you.
Whereas EU's "heavy-handed and ill-conceived" regulations are "respect copyright, respect user choice, document your models, and use AI responsibly".
Meta is capable of having correct actions and opinions and you are grossly oversimplifying the EU regulation.