RE: EU Link Tax & Upload Filters Proposal - Why It's a Bad Idea #saveyourinternet
Europe tends to come up with these odd schemes. Like the one they tried that only a garage can open the bonnet, (hood) on a car. So an owner cannot check their own oil or water levels. That disapeared.
Europe also wanted to make it compulsory that only a manufacturers parts can be used on a car. It was pointed out that each manufacturer also markets their parts for other makes of cars. That one also disapeared.
Europe tends to like large businesses and dislikes small ones as they are harder to control. So small creaters would find it difficult under this new law and close down.
Maybe this one will also go away, Eventually Europe will be so restrictive on the internet that most of the world will cut them off.
Many companies have decided to cut off their programs from Europe as the cost of meeting the new privacy regulations is just too high.
I personally have closed all of my email lists, and closed several of my web sites as it is just too much trouble to meet all the European regulations.
The examples you quote show a lack of insight on the part of those in control. The tragedy is that the control freaks that get themselves into positions of power don't know what they don't know, yet can go ahead enforcing law in spite of their innate short sightedness.
Thank goodness blockchain tech is providing platforms on which consensus can be reached about sensible ideas presented by whoever may have better solutions, irrespective of who they are. Nothing ain't perfect, because nobody can know what they don't know, but it is a move in the right direction, I think. At least here common sense rules stronger than corporate interests do, when it comes to weighing the value of ideas.
You are so right.