> You teach those filthy capitalists while you sit on a sovereign fund of oil wealth.

Not sure how this is supposed to be a gotcha—a sovereign wealth fund is by definition socialistic?

The point is they never learned how to create any value because they’re sitting on a goldmine.

Dirty oil money made you filthy rich, while destroying the environment. And from that pedastal you judge about other filthy capitalists. It is all a joke.

(But, maybe you are right, hackernews is full of people saturated on a pedestal and judging from there with a socialistic mindset. Well, it is a virus, that takes on young people with yet underdeveloped brains. ;)

Banning facebook would be a great thing for local replacements because it's relatively easy to replicate and will re-create some online advertising business. Once the local startups take off there will be pressure to dismantle business-hostile aspects of gdpr to sustain it. EU completely submitted to american online superiority, but as china shows, protectionism can fix that.