Some of the most influential technology companies have been able to accumulate the data, secure the customer base and balloon in size because they sprouted in an era of low-grade regulation—allowing them to cruise down the “information superhighway,” well past the leash of the laws that would eventually seek to govern them.

Curiously, those same providers have spent the past month lobbying the European Union and the U.S. Congress, beckoning to be regulated.

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