Comment by turquoisevar

Some government regulators used to primarily focus on natural persons (i.e. citizens/consumers) and prioritize them above all else.

Then neo-liberalism took over and they took a page out of the US’ playbook, and started prioritizing businesses.

But unlike in the US they aren’t comfortable outright stating that they’re prioritizing business interests over consumer interests, so instead they do this weird thing in their communications where they act like they’re standing up for small businesses. Problem however is that their definition of “small” business is everything below a trillion euro market cap.

It’s kind of jarring really, to hear them talk about having to protect those poor advertisers, like it’s some UNICEF donation ad.