[lovich]

Welcome to what the rest of the world has been experiencing under the US hegemony for the past 3 decades. Since we are not all operating under the same authority, and so we don't have anyone to appeal to for a final answer when we disagree, relations between nation's and their companies have been a matter of practicality rather than ethics. If you can silo off the EU feel free, but most companies won't voluntarily give up access to the largest economy in the known universe if they can find any way at all you can mitigate the local regulations

[mrep]

> If you can silo off the EU feel free, but most companies won't voluntarily give up access to the largest economy in the known universe

What metric are you using because wikipedia disagrees with you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...

[lovich]

I was going off articles like https://www.businessinsider.com/charts-eu-economy-is-bigger-...

However, when I was just looking it up now to find evidence for you I found various sources saying the US, China, or the EU was the largest so now I am not sure

[repolfx]

How does that follow?

The US does regulate domestic internet firms from time to time like with COPPA. But my daily internet experience is by and large left alone by Congress.

Whereas I have to dismiss annoying cookie popups every few hours thanks to the EU. Somehow I prefer Congress.