As someone who's spent significant time living in both, your belief that the US government is significantly better/different is quaint and amusing. Maybe the EU went overboard on fan guards (the new rule actually seems reasonable to me) but at least no one tells you how big your soda cup can be, or threatens to lock you up for carrying a bottle of wine in public, or crossing the street at the wrong place. Every country has their little restrictions and laws which often seem normal to those living there and batshit crazy to everyone else. C'est la vie
Plus, this is something that doesn't inconvenience the user in any way and is extremely cheap. Companies have shown many times that they are willing to accept injury lawsuits as a cost of doing business rather than design and test products for safety in the first place. The same goes for regulations when those regulations aren't strict enough to prevent selling such items in the first place (just look at the EU/Microsoft cases).
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