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jck86 32 minutes ago

Somehow the EU only appears to target big wealthy service providers. I wonder why.

gpvos 22 minutes ago | parent [-]

Please bring your actual argument instead of insinuating stuff.

Anyway, the EU's reasons seem to be entirely legitimate to me.

jck86 3 minutes ago | parent [-]

There is censorship of illegal streaming sites crippling the internet (Cloudflare). People are being freightened from illegal iptv boxes to watch free sports because it could be part of a botnet or residential proxy network. There are million or billion euro fines for social media and service providers like google. There is enforcement against "fast fashion". Yet there is zero effort for iot privacy, not even labels or certification for good devices.

I don't want to be cynical but face it, the EU really only cares about things that generate money for themselves or big internal market players under the disguise of consumer safety and privacy. Obviously that also comes with some good effects but the perverse incentives are enormous from which we must not be blinded by ideology and warm feelings of our politicians being good and working for the people and the common good.