What U.S. tech learned from Europe

Hi everyone, it’s Jeremy in London.

Europe’s approach to technology policy has been to decry the size and dominance of U.S. tech giants such as Google and Facebook, all the while bemoaning its own inability to create rival companies of similar power. It’s led American executives to cry hypocrisy and suggest, at least privately, that Europe’s regulatory attacks are driven as much by protectionist impulses as concerns about tax avoidance and privacy.