[thunky]

> How can any small company or startup survive if they have to contend with those kinds of requirements?

That's why Twitter didn't start there.

[PeterStuer]

If Twitter had started there the US would have just scooped it up with their free monopoly money.

[friedman23]

The free monopoly money that is somehow worth more than the european monopoly money.

[PeterStuer]

Only the designated world reserve currency is truly free monopoly money.

[mola]

Because weapons.

[thunky]

That's beside the point if Europe's regulatory structure (among other reasons) made starting a business there less attractive anyway.