European regulators just slapped a major social platform with a €140M penalty (roughly $163M) under their Digital Services Act framework. Interesting timing—somehow the same rulebook doesn't seem to hit homegrown European platforms quite as hard.

Looks like another round of transatlantic wealth redistribution, where one continent covers its competitive gaps by extracting revenue from another's tech giants. The "consumer protection" narrative wears thin when the enforcement pattern is this selective. Classic regulatory capture disguised as public interest.