Comment on The EU Wants To Grow Homegrown Tech. Its Courts Keep Making That Impossible. by Arianity

the EU effectively regulated its own internet ambitions to death:

This is a convenient argument for companies who don't want to be regulated, but it's one we should be extremely skeptical of unless given firm evidence. The EU has a lot of problems when it comes to tech (and it's not unique to tech), most of which predate these regulations. Massively lower research (and VC) budgets, lower salaries, etc, have led to a lack of a Silicon Valley type area. The comparison to China is particularly striking- hardly an unregulated market! There's also a lot more nuance when more onerous requirements often don't kick in until VLOP status with e.g. the DSA.

Like, I don't think you can look at something like Mistral and confidently say that the issue is being strangled by regulation. Similarly for say... Deepmind (headquartered in the UK, teams in France/Germany) bought by Google.

And of course, most of these "US" companies are in California, which seems to be going strong despite companies' insistence that regulation will strangle innovation.

All of the upstart competitors, all of the services the EU now says it wants to grow at home, would find it impossibly difficult to offer such a feature, because the risk of liability would be way too intense.

I'm not a fan of this change, but this story is a bit too neat. By this logic, services like Bluesky supposedly can't operate in the EU. And yet- they do. They haven't had the explosive growth, sure, but they do exist. Perhaps they'll all pull out after this CJEU ruling