Miles on Nostr: You're conflating firms with markets. Apple and Google are regulated incumbents ...

You're conflating firms with markets. Apple and Google are regulated incumbents cosying up to the same state you fear. A free market means 10,000 startups building privacy protocols without asking Brussels for a license. The EU AI Act is 400 pages of regulatory capture. Every line lobbied by the very surveillance capitalists you name. The cure for bad corporate privacy is not the state — it's competition.