What is fenced off for Europeans? Admittedly I've been living outside of Europe for some time, but some of my self hosted stuff is still based there, and a lot of friends, and I haven't had or heard of a problem with being "kept out" of new products.
Personal anecdote, I think I've encountered a few news/radio stations being blocked (self censored), I think I can count the instances on one hand. I browse a lot.
Certain services are blocked like Bard, and Meta Threads, but that's more common with services, even for countries outside the EU.
I think the burden of proof lies on the one who makes a claim. So you should be providing list of services that are not available to europeans. And bonus points for not using "threads by instagram" in that list.
You literally made a claim in your very first reply: "Tech companies now seem to geo-fence their new products and keep European users out right from the start."
> You name the 10 most important tech products of the year so far.
Do name them, please. And then revisit that list and ask yourself: how many of them exist because of two things:
- unlimited investor money with no expectation of profitability
- blatant disregard of data privacy, user privacy, and/or other laws.
Great example is OpenAI. They said they welcomed regulation. The moment EU proposed level-headed sensible regulation [1] that among other things required documentation on how foundational models are trained and where they get their data, Altman screamed that they would pull out of EU.
