I mean, however flawed the EU may be, I think they are earnestly trying to protect the average person from the current paradigm of abusive data collection. Perfect can’t be the enemy of good.

That is blatantly wrong.

The EU has been trying to ban encryption for the last 3 years so that it can read all your text messages, listen to your conversations and monitor the images you send to your loved ones/friends without requiring a warrant from the authorities, therefore granting them an unlimited access to everyone's private life without offering any possible recourse.

The EU's pro-privacy stance is a just a facade, they want as much data as the US government, they just don't want to admit it publicly.

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Isn’t the EU trying to ban encryption? Do you really think they give a crap about average person