[pythonic_hell]

The irony of your statement is that many of the core tech, protocol and software systems underpinning these big tech companies were developed in the EU.

[LAC-Tech]

In the EU != by the EU. By EU I'm referring to the governing bodies, ie my reference to the EU regulating things.

If you re-read what I said with that in mind, does it make more sense to you?

[planck01]

The EU is not a tech company. Then yet, they are funding these kinds of things. Check for instance https://gaia-x.eu/

However, these projects don't really have good results and generally are better made in the private sector. Same in the US actually