But they break user experience with absolutely horrible visual design and to me at least that has been a big turn off. It's like they don't even want new people to start using their stuff.
"California's "eraser button" law will require this policy for all websites with users in the state."
All websites hosted in California, maybe. Would they decide to restrict access to sites that don't comply? The easiest way to comply would be to disallow Californian minors. The kids would just change their age or state.
So what can't I do when I go to other EU country that you can when changing state in US? I still get health care, I still can work there, I can move there if i so desire. What can't I do what I could possibly still want?
Being hipster is just trying to look cool for doing everything that isn't actually cool. Being geek is about doing things that you like that just happen to be geeky.
European Union is basically many countries living together as one too. I can move between countries without any problem. I can work in any other EU country just as easily as I can in my home country. How about you consider Sweden as one province of EU. Are you really saying that different cultures aren't getting along here? What you win at economy you lose in quality of life.