Re:EU investigates Google over AI-generated summaries in sea...
by constantcrying on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @12:01PM
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>China is in this position because of regulations
Then the regulations of the EC just fucking sucked and destroyed all chances of the EU ever having a competitive software industry.
Re:EU investigates Google over AI-generated summaries in sea...
by Nextgrid on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @12:32PM
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The regulations were good, it's just that enforcement was and remains dysfunctional and basically non-existent.
Those business-ending GDPR fines HN loves fear-mongering about never materialized. Similarly with the DMA - Apple is still being allowed to stall and wage bureaucratic warfare to not comply.
In contrast, when in China people were found to be using AirDrop's "open to everyone" feature to share content the CCP deemed inappropriate, we quickly got a change where AirDrop would only stay open to everyone for 10 mins before reverting back to "contacts only".
If the EU had the same balls they would give Apple an ultimatum and you'd get alternate browser engines, app stores, and the right to "sideload" overnight.
China is in this position because of regulations (and technological enforcement of them like GFW), which prevented US tech from taking any significant foothold and left the market available for local competition.
> enormous legal burden on any prospective competitor that failure is guaranteed
Can you tell me which business can't work in the EU? Selling software is legal. Operating a SaaS is legal. Hell, even industrial-scale spyware is legal, as long as you become big quickly enough so that enforcing the GDPR against you becomes counterproductive. The only thing I see that can't be done is industrial-scale corporation-on-consumer fraud, but I don't think we're losing much because of that.