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Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy?

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Re: Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy?

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Europe keeps regulating itself to death and america isn’t. That’s why most modern innovation (Intel, Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Tesla, SpaceX, Uber, Airbnb, Etc) is coming from the US and not Europe. If you lived in both continents you would know

You could argue that America is unregulating itself to death.

Death? If your comment was a headline, I'd call it clickbait.

Re: Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy?

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Europe keeps regulating itself to death and america isn’t. That’s why most modern innovation (Intel, Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Tesla, SpaceX, Uber, Airbnb, Etc) is coming from the US and not Europe. If you lived in both continents you would know

>Europe keeps regulating itself to death and america isn’t.

Given that the life expectancy in the US is falling which is unprecedented in an industrialised society, and on average below some second world countries that post has an involuntary morbid spin.

Re: Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy?

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post #7

Europe keeps regulating itself to death and america isn’t. That’s why most modern innovation (Intel, Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Tesla, SpaceX, Uber, Airbnb, Etc) is coming from the US and not Europe. If you lived in both continents you would know

You could argue that America is unregulating itself to death.

Very true, although not with tech.

Re: Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy?

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Is it because large American cos are lobbying against such rules ?

It's because America invented tech.

No, that is not it.

If that was the explanation, then we would say that America is behind the rest of the world on weights and measures because America invented engineering.

And we would say that America is behind the rest of the world on Health Care because America invented hospitals.

And we would say that America is behind the rest of the world on justice and incarceration because America invented prisons.

A much simpler explanation is that all these things share the same social and political forces, and America is different from the rest of these world on all these things for similar reasons, and those reasons--whatever we may think they are--are not related to whether America "invented tech" or not.

See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20140960

Re: Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy?

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Europe keeps regulating itself to death and america isn’t. That’s why most modern innovation (Intel, Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Tesla, SpaceX, Uber, Airbnb, Etc) is coming from the US and not Europe. If you lived in both continents you would know

Odd comment considering Americans are literally dying due to a refusal to regulate in certain areas - employee rights, healthcare, gun laws, obesity etc. Small price to pay for "freedom" I guess.

How does regulation help with obesity? And if it does, why are Europeans very nearly as fat as Americans?

Re: Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy?

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post #7

Europe keeps regulating itself to death and america isn’t. That’s why most modern innovation (Intel, Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Tesla, SpaceX, Uber, Airbnb, Etc) is coming from the US and not Europe. If you lived in both continents you would know

You could argue that America is unregulating itself to death.

The sad part is that platform economies are mostly owned by US companies, and their internal (inside the platform) markets operate on a global scale. So far we haven't seen much external regulation here.

Re: Why Is America So Far Behind Europe on Digital Privacy?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's because America invented tech.

No, that is not it. If that was the explanation, then we would say that America is behind the rest of the world on weights and measures because America invented engineering. And we would say that America is behind the rest of the world on Health Care because America invented hospitals. And we would say that America is behind the rest of the world on justice and incarceration because America invented prisons. A much s…

America does have a rather extreme case of “not invented here” syndrome; we rarely consider best practices in other countries as worthy, especially if that other country is not an Anglosphere one.

In fact, that “America invented tech” comment is a perfect example of that.

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