No, they live in the US.
Maybe the reason a lot of techies have a distrust of regulations and assume governments to be incompetent is that... they live in the bay area 
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I grew up in a place with a surprisingly functional state & local governments.
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EU GDPR authors: hold my beer
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From the authors of the cookies law, now in your meetings: GDPR! IMHO it's a quite global phenomenon, we could make a wiki with thousands of entries, for each country.
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I don’t think it’s limited to the Bay Area. In 4 out 4 counties / continents I have lived in the past 8 years, regulations have slowed down innovation and have cultivated the culture of lobby-ism, either legally or through hidden alleyways for corruption.
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And yet they continue to vote the incompetent into office. Who then is the fool?
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Many of the problems are structural - political fragmentation, or the property tax system. The system is set up to fail.
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Happens also in other parts of the planet. Seems like an invariant to me.
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I live in Brazil and I can assure you that it is worse
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