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If the US did what the EU has done, I would probably have to wait another 50 years for products I use every day like - Google Maps - Google Speech Recognition - Google Photos Search - Google Home

I'm thankful that my government has allowed innovation to continue. I'm glad they have represented my interests as a consumer by favoring technological growth over protection I neither want nor need.

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Note that China has reproduced to a large extent and in some areas exceeded these services within a few years precisely through massive government intervention

What does it mean to "exceed" a service?

Wechat vs Whatsapp

That doesn't answer the question.

Exceeds the utility to user obviously

And how does WeChat do that?

IIRC, by being a ubiquitous mobile payments platform.

That's a good point. Monopolies can be better than open competition at creating standards.

Ever used Skype? Spotify? Trivago? Those are EU tech products many people use everyday, just goes to show that intervening from time to time doesn't necessarily mean that we live in some socialist, repressive regime.

You're welcome, by the way.

Also, YouTube.

YouTube is from San Mateo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_YouTube

Google offers plenty of minor services but Maps is in a completely different league than Skype or even Spotify.

YouTube is closer to Spotify but would probably still be impossible without Google's massive investment. Dailymotion is pretty far behind.

Open street map then ;)

Exactly. Last thing we want is the EU type of heavy handed influence on free markets.

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