[avz]

This made me think of Elephant in Cairo [1] and Pachydermic Personnel Prediction [2]. Specifically, it reminded me of what the classification says about the job of a politician:

> Politicians don't hunt elephants, but they will share the elephants you catch with the people who voted for them.

Along these lines, we'd have something like

> Europeans don't invent new tech, but they will regulate the tech you invented.

As a fellow European, I struggle to feel any pride or happiness about this.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_in_Cairo

[2]: https://www-users.york.ac.uk/~ss44/joke/elephant.htm

[LelouBil]

The thing is, whether these laws happened because of non European business or because of European business is irrelevant to me.

There are companies (outside and inside of Europe) misusing personal data given to them and there were not enough regulations about this.

Now there is, so I'm happy.

If a random country made similar laws only for their companies I would also be happy, for the users located in this country.

It just happens to affect me and the people I know so I'm even more happy.

[davidguetta]

America didn't invent everything..

[malermeister]

The invention in case was predatory surveillance capitalism.

I'm quite happy our elected officials are putting an end to the abuse.