Big companies love regulations (but won’t admit it). Regulations keep newcomers out of the market and drive little companies into bankruptcy.

Hey now. Sometimes big companies publicly champion those regulations, if they can frame it as some kind of moral crusade.

truly one of the most amazing developments in trans-Atlantic tech policy over the past 20 years is the way that Europe set out to regulate US tech giants into the ground, but only made them more dominant as a result.

This Economist headline really says it. https://t.co/6KGiMYCqvu pic.twitter.com/OHsCWFKCdR

— Adam Thierer (@AdamThierer) April 24, 2026

h/t DAS Spiderman