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by slick50 2365 days ago
I've noticed that those in power are adding more and more regulations to businesses. This sounds good on the surface, but the end result is that small companies don't have the money or the attorneys to handle the red tape involved in keeping up with these regulations and big companies love it because it shuts the door on future competition.

If the EU doesn't break up completely in the next decade, I predict that European websites and web-related businesses will be a thing of the past for startups and small companies, unless they have the backing of a huge conglomerate/mega corporation or the government. Maybe this was the intended plan?

I, for one, don't want a future where governments and large corporations control the Internet