[sergefaguet]

This highlights why governments are impotent: - it has been 5 years since GDPR was implemented to great fanfare - by the time of implementation data mining has been going on for many years - 5 years after 90% of businesses use dark patterns that are non-compliant - actual fines and enforcement are negligible - maybe they will start enforcing more aggressively... after another 5 years

It is simply the case that large bureaucratic organizations are too slow and too incompetent to deal with rapidly changing technology. And the tech community sees this and has no respect for governments. How can you respect impotent Industrial Age structures today anyway?

My view is that by mid-century Western governments will be going bankrupt in droves since tech will optimize out their ability to collect taxes or inflate currency. Plus they will just be extremely behind the curve and become irrelevant to everyone’s tech-dominated lives.

It is tech companies that will lead the future. It doesn’t matter if this does not agree with pro-democratic sensibilities. Sensibilities will change and adapt to reality.