This comes down to Europe actually being ruled by rich nepotist families who own the big private corporations here They have access to the government, well in fact, they're pretty much infilitrated into the government Startups don't This isn't some crazy conspiracy theory If follow the people behind the anti-tech, anti-AI and pro-censorship regulation it's all people like Thierry Breton who spent his whole life in the corporatist cliques of France The European Commission especially is an unelected clique of corporatist cronies with no interest for startups, in fact looking at the regulation they pass they are fully AGAINST startups Because startups are a threat to the existing incumbent corporations that control Europe The silver lining of Europe absolutely failing at tech due to all its overregulation is that these people will be forced out because it will run out of money, only get poorer, and Europeans won't accept this state for much longer I for sure don't