[anfogoat]

There's many great things in these laws that, in a vacuum, I'd love to have. Outside of the vacuum, I couldn't care less. The benefits absolutely pale in comparison to letting ghouls whom the mere existence of the Internet offends have any sort of say on anything remotely connected to anything that has even tangential proximity to the Internet. The greater the year and number of laws passed, the clearer it is that the only correct position on this is an absolute one.

If there is a discrepancy between what is legal offline vs. online, and you feel you must correct it, then you can strip down the laws that govern the offline. There, solved. The threshold between governments and privacy on, and control of the Internet has been worn down low enough, and has been for over a decade. The only laws we need that have to do with the Internet are to curtail the power of law enforcement and intelligence agencies. Anything other than that betrays all the things the EU says about privacy and fundamental rights as the marketing bauble it is.

And an EU Commissioner saying "we're bringing our European values into the digital world" should scare people. It's a good time to remind everyone that part of these values is letting the Europol do whatever and then rewriting laws to reatroaticely protect them when they've found to be systematically violating them. And for Ursula specifically, those values are what drove her to try over and over again to curtail online freedoms regardless of having it made clear to her that her ideas are unwanted. The Commissioners might be democratically elected -- if you're willing to take the concept of representative democracy to its 100000000th degree -- but they're undemocratic in spirit.

But sure, lets all focus on protecting ourselves from the fucking ads again.

[oaiey]

So the internet should be a lawless space. I would recommend you to talk to victims of doxxing, revenge porn, fraud and many other kind of internet based or enabled crimes.

And if you assume the internet should find its own kind of technical solutions, then the solution will look like trusted computing. Then is removing freedom of violating the law, which is worse than having a restrictive law.