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Cake day: January 21st, 2020

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  • it seems that EU is quicker to jump on this for a few reasons:

    • oppositional incentive (or absence of stake)
    • quicker more efficient legal system
      • and speculated slightly better voter participation (not counting polarization/partisan us politics)
    • US has “money in politics” problem where US tech has lobbying, superpac, and campaign contributions.
      • estimated 274 million for a year
      • estimated 1.15 billion – 4 billion(max: 11.5 billion (Underreporting, off-book, classification quirk)) over the last 15 years
    • i would speculate that big tech only needs to maintain their existing control, not break new ground.
      • low US citizen resistance for ambiguous concerns of products they love