The Costs Of Europe's GDPR Regime

the eu's approach to regulating tech discourages both innovation and competition — and now brussels has its targets set on ai

In the past decade, China was a black sheep when it came to social media. Whatever the new app was, odds were it was banned in China. X/Twitter? Banned. Facebook? Banned. Instagram? Banned. 

But over the past few months, a dark horse has emerged in the censorship olympics: the European Union.

Earlier this year, the government of Italy took down ChatGPT ci…