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@gerikson @techtakes I think you’ll find Boris Johnson pioneered that one in the early 1990s.

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Was that before or after hairdressers gave up on him?

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True, but it’s recently crossed the pond to Silicon Valley. I think it was when the DMA affected Apple that a lot of hackernews became EU regulation experts and started grappling with the fact that laissez-faire is seen as a dirty word in the country where it originated.

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