The position of the US executive on encryption is well summarized by the Lavabit case.
7:40 - Bob was delayed by 5 minutes. ETA 7.45
7:35 - Bob is heading your way. ETA 7:40
7:20 - Bob has picked up your order from Pizza place
https://www.trade.gov/rules-origin-substantial-transformatio...
I try to sympathize with trump's deglobalization agenda but it is probably exactly what it seems to be : a colossal stupidity.
They benefitted from it so hard they voted for the exact opposite with eyes wide open. Twice.
> Because now most Americans don't slave away in unsafe factories 7 days/week for dollars an hour.
Now they're collecting disability in their unsafe neighborhoods, getting morbidly obese while their substance abusing kids play vidya games in the basement into their 30s.
Yes, it's really like that. People want their factories and incomes back. I don't claim that anything happening here is going to deliver that, but that's the pitch they're voting for. To their credit, at least they're pursuing that in lieu of some UBI ideocracy made of fantasy money.
As for you: it's fine to point out all the ways they may be misguided and/or misled, but unless you have an alternative that doesn't amount to expecting everyone to somehow earn an advanced degree, and then discover it's next to worthless (even before "AI",) your really not contributing much. So what do you have?
Anything?
People vote against their own interests constantly. This is literally evidence of that.
The EU regulations so far did not achieve much (other than eradicating EU ads market) , and the YC knows that.
They want to distract the government away from breaking up bigtech and towards an anodyne (but annoying) regulation.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/es/ip_24_...