[contras1970]

> There are sites that just block requests from the EU, there's a difficult-to-measure chilling effect on small businesses

food safety regulations have a chilling effect on businesses that would try and sell arsenic-laced food.

dumping poisonous byproducts of a manufacturing process in a river will also net you a stomping by the society, another instance of a chilling effect of regulations.

i'm happy with these chilling effects, they relieve me of the need for constant vigilance. they enable our society to function. we do not need to fear for our mental of physical health and (private) lives all the time, we can focus on higher-order things instead.

[moduspol]

I feel differently about it, but I think that's totally fair. Just pointing out that it's not quite the case that opponents' predictions turned out to be wrong.

Some did, at least for the first year. But some haven't.