The European Union is conducting bizarre experiments in international law. If you live on the planet Earth, you are subject to EU laws, and therefore, to malicious prosecution from those who have more money than you.
https://twitter.com/jbhall56/status/1478354299021373446
I mean, I've been railing about how bad the EU cookie law is for a long time. The EU cookie law has probably tricked more people into accepting push notifications from random websites than any other imaginable tactic. And seriously harmed consumer privacy in the process. #irony
What the EU is doing to the world is reminiscent of how California exports its zealous laws to the rest of the country (e.g. car emission standards). While California's laws are arguably a good thing in many cases, the EU is just writing fucking disastrous law.
It's like, what if you had a cumbersome bureaucratic committee let itself be manipulated by corporate interests into doing shit that sounds good but really has the opposite of the claimed effect?
Also, the case at the head of the thread is a result of a malicious lawsuit against @forensicnewsnet. You should give them money, because they do interesting reporting; and because they're being sued; and because we really need alternatives to our shitty current media system.
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