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Tech giants have to comply with a new EU law that is set to change the internet. It aims to force open the biggest platforms to encourage competition and give users more choice in their digital lives.
It certainly helps that there isn’t big money lobbying against this, so I don’t think you deserve these downvotes.
But this is very much an expression of the neoliberal ideology that the EU has in its DNA. The opposition to monopolies is one positive aspect.
There is big money lobbying against this, and the AI act, and every other EU regulation.
US firms care if they can make money in the EU and actively lobby to change legislation.