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by jkirsteins 2569 days ago
This is a bit rose tinted outlook. GDPR does not increase competition, the amount of regulation in EU and worker protections in place raise barriers for new competitors. France has laws that prohibit new movies from being put on Netflix in order to support local distributors etc.

Not saying what the EU does is goos or bad, but painting it as pro free market competition seems unfounded.
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addicted 2569 days ago
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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jkirsteins 2568 days ago
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.

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danielscrubs 2566 days ago
Like breaking up the Samsung-Philips cartel?

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

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