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good regulations work. there are also lots of bad ones.
It's the point of "majority of". It doesn't include all of them.
Historically, we experienced the last 50 years disregulation. We should not confuse disregulation and regulation. What is also the point of "majority of". It only include the regulations.
See: GDPR with massive fines for small companies but almost nothing for tech giants, and the complete lack of any action against non-compliant or maliciously compliant cookie banners.
Most tech giants are compliant now (which is the actual goal of regulation, not fines). Although they've had fines too.
90 million € for Google? I'm sure they learned their lesson.