> Software is (was?) where you could go from 0 to something by yourself. This will end it.
Isn't that the idea? Regulatory capture [1] entrenches the existing players while keeping out would-be competitors. The proposed law won't affect Big Tech, but will affect small to medium-sized businesses.
>>hgs3+(OP)
Personally to me it does look like that's the idea. GDPR might be a good idea but compliance with it for small bussiness is very hard. Pretty sure that to this day if you actually audited them a lot of would get fined, as it can only trully be understood by lawyers, as most laws do. Personal interpretations of it "It's not hard, just do x..." don't matter, what courts think matter.