At the same time, the EU wants to assert control over what its citizens consume and drive the narrative, in a way that the US, either due to confidence, or due to it having a leader role in the opinion-shaping ecosystem, or whatever, simply does not. I am worried that the US will eventually come for anonymity and VPNs, but as long as most of the US population (and the world population) uses Meta, Apple, Google etc, it doesn't "have" to attack VPNs (under the CLOUD act, the US can just request any US company for any data for anyone outside the US using US services no harm no foul).