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kodablah on Sept 12, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: EU approves internet copyright law, including ‘lin...

It is an unpopular opinion, but they were given the mandate by all those cheering the internet restrictions in the GDPR. Whether you still like that law or not is unrelated to the mandate given. You should have drawn your battle lines there instead of being so dismissive of those warning about government intervention.

mjburgess on Sept 12, 2018 [–]

The majority dissent here isn't that the EU do not have the right to regulate the internet in some way, it is that they are not doing it well.

You can believe GDPR is a good law and this a bad one without hypocrisy. As much as you can believe murder ought be illegal but not cannabis.

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