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Possible? No, not really, assuming they have "right intentions", the EU laws rarely turn out to be good for the population(link tax & copyright law for ex.). Even GDPR has some flaws that can be used to target the same people it claims to protect.

The main reason for this is simple,most of the bureaucrats making these laws have little to no "internet-sphere" literacy(or even technology as a whole to be quite honest).While they tackle the problems from a legal perspective,this same legal perspective is de facto putting handcuffs in the freedoms of the people, no matter the "intentions" the law-makers initially have.

And i agree, the best-case solution is to spread the idea of an internet bill of rights, specially in Europe.US is still one step ahead, their own constitution would be the thing this bill would be based on.Their smaller problem is that (few)corporations enjoy the benefits of both state incentives (see twitter,google,etc. through taxes) while also being a "publisher"(not being responsable for the content the users post).



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