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by BjoernKW 442 days ago
> Regulations like the GDPR precisely try to give incentives for competitors.

It failed miserably at that, too. Apart from Plausible there's hardly any business worth mentioning that used GDPR as a competitive advantage. GDPR for the most part has been a stimulus program for lawyers and government busybodies.
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palata 442 days ago
Maybe it failed, but that's the goal.

You can't take the GDPR, and conclude that regulations as an idea is bad.

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BjoernKW 442 days ago
> You can't take the GDPR, and conclude that regulations as an idea is bad.

Though I didn't make that claim, in fact I precisely think that more often than not that's indeed the case. Regulations often serve no other purpose than to create yet more red tape procedures and self-serving structures.

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palata 442 days ago
Right. So you agree with me when I asked to stop blaming regulations-as-an-idea for everything? It didn't sound like this.
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