[xvector]

Except the change the EU is trying to encourage with this ruling is really absurdly dumb. It's clearly and transparently rent seeking.

We are already in a trade war and the only one that refuses to acknowledge it is the US. The US needs to embargo and deprive EU of the essential tech infrastructure they provide it. Just turn it off or brick it one day and leave the EU scrambling to catch up with 20+ years of stagnation and missing services and hardware.

Let's see how good it will be for the consumer when tech just leaves. Maybe then they'll change their regulations to something that works to enable technological progress and innovation.

[PeterStuer]

And should the EU then compell SAP to retaliate in kind? You can argue the EU is more a serv than an ally to the US, but they still need them on their side.

The number of times you can pull a Nordstream are preciously limited.

[aeurielesn]

GP forgot this narrative where breaking laws enables technological progress and innovation.

[ktosobcy]

Please, do it :D

> Except the change the EU is trying to encourage with this ruling is really absurdly dumb. It's clearly and transparently rent seeking.

No it's not. It's as any other regulation that tries to prevent overusing ones power.

[piva00]

> No it's not. It's as any other regulation that tries to prevent overusing ones power.

That's an alien concept to a lot of Americans, even more the ones who grew up after Reaganomics with the true belief that corporations should be free to do as they please, nowadays it's always veiled under the empty platitude "it will hamper innovation".