Valve is what our culture deserves from all corporations. The fact that it seems like such an outlier is an indictment.

Our culture only deserves what we feel strongly enough to enshrine and enforce as law.

Americans like to clown on the EU, but consumer protections and privacy laws don’t magically pop up on their own, and businesses don’t all magically act in the consumers’ best interests unless they are legally made to.

The number of big innovations out of the EU in the past 25 years also rounds to 0. Don't fool yourself into believing the two things are unrelated.