Re:Meta prohibited from using personal data for advertisement
by whimsicalism on Wednesday January 04, 2023 @12:56PM
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My comment was meant as a statement of opinion and a discussion-starting-off point, certainly not a statement of fact. Social "science" is incredibly hard, certainly nothing I'm saying is incontrovertible - it's very loosely held if held at all.
The Economist article was meant for associated reading of this strand of thought, not proof of what I am saying.
> What I will say is that, as an erstwhile European it brings me great joy to see the EU causing so many headaches for international tech companies in the name of consumer protection. Just my opinion.
I think [strides in average peoples' well-being] is worth celebrating more so than [schadenfreude and the righteous downfall of the evil]. Nietzsche wrote extensively on the flaws of the latter moral tradition in Europe (again, only offering an opinion).
What I would say is you take a, let's say, free-market aligned source, and present what I'm assuming (it's behind a paywall) amounts to an opinion piece and make a bold statement "It is the lack of a predictable regulatory landscape in Europe that keeps them from being a hotbed of technological innovation[...]" as if it's a statement of fact.
I could equally say "It's the lack of a common language spoken by over 300 million people that holds Europe back" or "It's the lack of technical sophistication in the US, a country that still relies on the paper check and has no open banking APIs, that supports a diverse market of companies. For example Plaid could only launch in the US and become a unicorn there because such a questionable business model only makes sense there" if we're in the making statements of opinion sound like immutable facts line of work.
What I will say is that, as an erstwhile European it brings me great joy to see the EU causing so many headaches for international tech companies in the name of consumer protection. Just my opinion.