Right, but there's also the competing religious zealots who are ideologically opposed to regulation... like as a concept.

What you need to realize is that of course companies hate regulations. Every company, anywhere on Earth, will tell you regulation X is bad. All of them. They will do everything they can possibly do to not have the regulation.

When slavery was outlawed in the US, you can bet your ass that every single bad-faith recreation of slavery was tried. Many of them highly successful, and some taking over 100 years (yes, really!) to be fixed.

What that means is that, just because a company puts up a cookie banner, or says "this law sucks", doesn't mean you should take that to heart. Of course, to them, it sucks, and it's too complicated, and it's all legalese, and la dee da. They would prefer to hire children, okay? And we know that, for a fact, because they did. So just, grain of salt.

Doesn't mean the law is good either, but just know these are the adversarial forces here.

> Every company, anywhere on Earth, will tell you regulation X is bad. All of them. They will do everything they can possibly do to not have the regulation.

Have you missed all the large AI companies in US loudly demanding and otherwise lobbying for more regulation?

Regulations can be good for companies when you can make sure that they are written in a way that entrenches them against any new competitors.