> due to overly complex regulations such as GDPR, there are no EU-based alternatives to speak of
You're talking specifically about AWS competitors, right? I don't think it's related to GDPR. It's really that everybody uses AWS. Would you say that Canada doesn't have a competitor to AWS because of their regulations, too?
Regulations like the GDPR precisely try to give incentives for competitors. Which is hard to do because people/companies fight to use the US solutions and don't care about privacy, just convenience.
> Regulations like the GDPR precisely try to give incentives for competitors.
It failed miserably at that, too. Apart from Plausible there's hardly any business worth mentioning that used GDPR as a competitive advantage. GDPR for the most part has been a stimulus program for lawyers and government busybodies.
Maybe it failed, but that's the goal.
You can't take the GDPR, and conclude that regulations as an idea is bad.
> You can't take the GDPR, and conclude that regulations as an idea is bad.
Though I didn't make that claim, in fact I precisely think that more often than not that's indeed the case. Regulations often serve no other purpose than to create yet more red tape procedures and self-serving structures.
Right. So you agree with me when I asked to stop blaming regulations-as-an-idea for everything? It didn't sound like this.