I mean, that would be great, but I suspect that even just here on HN you'd get a lot of people strongly disagreeing with you. Because that would infringe upon the companies' "freedom" to profit in whatever way they see fit—and the people's "freedom" to let their data be vacuumed up and sold for massive profits.
Whether they agree or not is irrelevant. I think that PG's argument is that all the "regulation" and "strength of the EU" amounts to nothing. It's just people pretending to play power games, doing privacy theater and solving absolutely zero problems.
have him register a new, anonymous HN account and go say that in one of our weekly "apple bad" threads
Two wrongs don't make a right. Apple is bad and the EU bureaucracy is ineffective.