> Across the world, well-meaning laws intended to reduce online fraud and other scourges of the internet are being put to a very different use.

If only someone, anyone, could have foreseen this /s. I read so many HN comments about the "slippery slope fallacy," back when the powers that be were censoring the people that they didn't like. I bet they'll be right back where they were next time the government is going after the "misinformation" they don't like.

Everyone is an authoritarian towards the other side.