In the name of fairness and competition, Europe has written laws that leave its citizens as the only people in the free world without access to the most advanced technology.

Case in point: Apple’s newly announced artificial intelligence assistant, Siri AI, will launch on iPhones and iPads this fall in London and Toronto, but not in Paris or Berlin. Heavy-handed European tech regulation has produced no European Google, no European Apple and no competitive European AI rival — only the world’s most sophisticated machinery for slowing down innovation.