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Thats not how it works
What are you even trying to say?
that before long, everyone will be declared a gatekeeper, just so EU can control everything as they please.
You need at least 7.5B euro turnover and 45M MAU in the EU to have a chance to qualify. It's not going to be everyone.
Why shouldn't our sovereign government control things as they please? That's the whole point of sovereignty - people elect government, government makes rules.
You can control what ENTERS your borders, not what happens outside of them. You are free to cut the cables, but not to dictate to those outside your house how to live on the other end of those cables. Else we'll all be living under the union of the rules of everyone. You sure you want that? Iran bans a lot of things you might like, as does china, and russia, and usa.
As soon as you send that data into my country, it is happening inside my borders.

You can buy magic mushrooms semi legally in the Netherlands. Doesn't mean you won't get in trouble if you send them from the Netherlands to another country.

So you DO want iran controlling what your LLC does if it is internet connected in any way (which everything is now).
Don't do business with Iran, then you don't have a problem

If you do do business with Iran, you have to follow Iranian law

Or they could just not serve Iran? But yeah, if you operate in a country you should probably follow their laws. I don't see how that's controversial
That's not how that's supposed to work!

Democratically elected governments should have no say as to how many billions of dollars of market activity tech oligarchs are entitled to capture and redirect towards their very noble goal of winning the competition to see who can build the biggest yacht.

And, of course, building bunkers for when enough of the general population eventually catches onto and gets tired of the grift...

Some baseline needs to be a established, because small palyers can't play with the same rules of larger ones.

And it is absolutely the role of the government to regulate the market.

I believe you missed the dripping sarcasm
Eh, too many people say very similar shit in HN with a straight face. Quite a few here is quite happy to bow to their corporate masters.

I can't tell if parent was being sarcastic.

Ok, and what would you say is the problem, there?

https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/about-dma_en

All I see is more interoperability, fairer competition, more consumer rights, etc. If you are against this sort of regulation and a rational being, I envy you because you must either be oligarch-level rich, or in a happy bubble disconnected from world-affecting current events.