Who Strikes Fear into Silicon Valley? Margrethe Vestager

Re:Who Strikes Fear into Silicon Valley? Margrethe Vestager by montrose on Saturday May 12, 2018 @02:48AM (#17052828)

I wonder if there will ever come a time when the biggest danger to SV from Europe is competitors, rather than regulators.

It may be that competitors can't become more of a threat till regulators become less of one. It's hard for a society to focus simultaneously on multiple things, and regulation and startups seem not merely orthogonal, but opposed.

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Re:Who Strikes Fear into Silicon Valley? Margrethe Vestager by money_talks on Saturday May 12, 2018 @02:56AM (#17052852)

There's a big difference between regulation that affects all players fairly and equally (like safety codes requiring buildings be built to certain specs, requiring insurance, food labeling laws, etc.), and regulation like antitrust which affects only select companies that are successful and meet unpublished post-facto and mostly arbitrary criteria.

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