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> At least you are not relying on legalese and other agreements to safeguard your interests. In a democracy, our rights are protected by the legal system. So your argument that it is all about "setting up your own system" is specious.
Protected, yes, enforceable, not really. You are talking about a reactive stance where regulation will protect black box systems that you have no control over. That's just not possible. You can, and should, have regulation to protect the weaker classes, but hoping that it is really enough is naive. The whole point of open and federated protocols like email is to avoid lock-in. So if a large government or a bank canno…
Then you aren't aware about India. The Government of India aggressively even revised a law, to get 2+ billion dollars of tax from Vodafone, after Vodafone won the case for not paying it in the Supreme Court of India. [Source: https://thewire.in/business/vodafone-versus-india-bit-intern... ].
Second, while your fears on abuse is valid, but this is how international laws slowly come into being. Each country makes their own laws and when they conflict with each other, they sit, talk and evolve mutually beneficial laws. (Or they fight wars and the winner enforces their laws).
Note that while these laws may seem protectionist, it's goal is to provide even foreign players a legal framework to do business in India.