[yanmaani]

The previous regulation didn't ban broadcasting, or anything relating to it.

Re: "knowingly and intentionally," I will repost my comment <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30537459>:

> "Knowingly and intentionally" seems to apply to the operation (e.g. "you know that you're running a Tor node") - "circumvention" is on the basis of "object or effect". (For ESL speakers: "object" means "goal", "effect" means "result", and Tor obviously has a final, de-facto result of unblocking RT)

[woodruffw]

I responded to the second part above, below your linked comment.

For the first: broadcasting is an intentional media activity. You're right that this new regulation adds a ban, but it's not clear that said ban undermines the intent required in Article 12.

To be clear: it's a form of government censorship. But, on my reading, it's not a particularly broad form or itself a stepping stone to banning Tor. The EU seems perfectly content to broach that problem with separate regulation.