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hoodoof·

I don't understand, can you explain?

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Perhaps that any attempt to subvert snooping by the government will simply be made illegal?

Maybe the startup opportunities will now be in Europe.

Perhaps the silicon valley capital will see the scale of the opportunity and fund euro companies that can live outside the U.S regulatory domain.

Don't think that Europe is so much better, Tempora is bigger and more powerfull then Prism and the germans have a hacker paragraph* for example.

* https://www.fbi.h-da.de/fileadmin/gruppen/FG-IT-Sicherheit/P...

Was mainly commenting that we don't how THE MAN will react. New Congress soon, new President soon enough...all could quickly change and new legislation could kill/amplify any business going after this "problem". Maybe it's systemic and ripe for disruption. Maybe Bernie Sanders will have a smackdown this week and the privacy issue is moot. We don't know what lawmakers might do = regulatory risk.

Was just suggesting investors might use that lens...if that's the route a startup takes.

Elections never truly change anything though.

Companies with hundreds of billions in cash in the bank do change things.

History time: France had some pretty onerous crypto regulations back in the 90ies. Europe can and does stupid stuff too.

Also, it remains to be seen whether people care enough about this to vote with their wallets.

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