I never used Erlang, and I'm a functional programming fan. But languages based on heavy VM that abstract OS away always make me doubt that's the right direction.
How much time do you think will take for teenagers to discover VPNs? Another impossible to enforce law made by people who don't know what they're doing.
All is relative. 16 billions of EUR looks like a lot. But are spent in 12 years, so 1.3 Billions of Eur year. To compare Italy alone has spent 1 billion to have empty immigrant centers in Albania in less than two years.
Not related to the layoff (I'm very sad for what author is experiencing), but the blog looking is very great and functional. Looking on the page code I see that is using a CSS framework that I'm never heard off Open Pros (https://open-props.style/), looks like a much better solution than Tailwind and friends. I see that a components collection is the development too Open Props UI (https://open-props-ui.netlify.app/)