If those products the tech giants withhold are harming users right to privacy, then isn't it beneficial for it to happen?
You can think of Texas as leading the way in regulating tech.
I wonder if this, overall, is a good thing or at least, given the political climate, can be seen as positive. There's probably a name for this type of regulatory weaponization against companies that don't fit your jurisdiction's political agenda (is it the inverse of regulatory capture?). Hard to write that last sentence and connect it to being a "good thing," but if the likes of Texas proactively regulate big tech, and then the likes of California proactively regulate, for instance, the fossil fuel industry (which I'm guessing Texans would say CA has been doing since the beginning of time) then does the broader population benefit overall because all corporations are somewhat being held in check?
Short of there being some objectively true regulatory regime at the federal level (think that's impossible) then this maybe is the only way to have productive regulation.
I'm not selling myself on any of this as I write it, but thought I'd throw it out there.
The EU abject failure to develop a tech industry and seemingly nearly single minded drive to prevent one from forming isn't really equivalent to a couple of enforcement actions in Texas.
ASML is USA tech there is a reason why important ASML decisions such as who they are allowed to sell to is directly controlled by the United States congress.
Hell ASML isn't even allowed to stop selling to the USA which is kinda of funny especially since they've been treating to just leave the Netherlands and move to the USA.
It's extremely funny watching big tech companies relocated to Texas because of "deregulation" (or in Elon Musk's case, because he's a big whiny baby), only to learn that red states still love regulation and hate big tech more than blue states.
Elon learned this lesson the hard way moving Tesla's HQ from CA to TX, and then back to CA. Now he's doing it again with SpaceX.
Texas is the absolute last place I would headquarter a business if I cared about its future.
Do you have a source for Tesla moving its HQ back to CA? I can't seem to find that online. Maybe you mean Tesla engineering? I'm admittedly not sure what that means vs Tesla overall, but it sounds like only the engineering moved back, not the overall company. Not trying to nitpick; generally want to know if the actual HQ of the company moved back.
> Elon learned this lesson the hard way moving Tesla's HQ from CA to TX, and then back to CA
It is probably unwise to make shit up and state it as a fact online. There is no evidence of Tesla moving back to California nor any reason to expect it.
I have not seen any indication SpaceX or Tesla plan to relocate back to California. On the contrary they only recently discussed moving SpaceX to Texas. Is there new news I missed?
He moved Tesla Engineering from CA to TX to CA, first citing that California over-regulates, and later citing that moving to Texas was a mistake due to the power grid issues.
Now he's moving SpaceX from CA to TX, citing that California wouldn't hand over tons of healthcare data on transgender people to Texas authorities. This has nothing to do with SpaceX's actually business (just culture war nonsense), and the power grid problem isn't resolved in the slightest (it will probably get worse), so I assume that he'll be retracting that decision at some point and moving back to CA where the electricity that he needs to run his business is delivered with reliability greater than the privatized mismanaged Texas grid that deliberately refuses to peer with other state's grids (giving them no failover options outside of the state of Texas).
