That is not why people attack the EU, at least that is not why I am personally hostile to it.

I am attcaking it because it has failed to deliver on it's promises. The whole push for digital sovereignty has been going on for years if not decades now and nothing ever materialized.

You can go back to the archives of HN to see how many articles have been shared along the years regarding the EU's attempt to start their own versions of FAANG/MANGA companies.

You can even go back to last year to see when the so called Draghi report was being talked about and see how much progress has been made to address the issues that he raised.

Then there is also the fact that the EU does not miss one occasion to publicly criticize countries that violates human rights like China and Russia all the while it's own commission is trying to exert major control on social media via the DMA and remove privacy for all citizens in Europe in order to "save the children".

Do anyone really think that EU cares about your privacy more than the US?

But when you bring any of these points, the EU supporters come back with, well that's because there is not enough EU. Listening to them, we should all just be happy to be a federation where countries become provinces that are managed by bureaucrats in Brussels.

Now, that may be what certain people want but I am not one of them.