He was mocking the way people talk about the EU and intentionally used companies not based in California as examples.

In this very orange website. Any EU regulation seems to be anathema and a barrier to innovation, and that extends to things that improve user privacy and such.

Do you have any links? This is very curious and new to me, I haven't personally seen this before, but I'm more than happy to be wrong!

The joke is that every single time an article about EU tech regulations comes out, a bunch of people sneer that this is why Europe doesn't have FAANGs.