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This is it. Thank you, I commented about my local experiences with government in Europe and US/Canada but did not know the correct terms and you're right, I think this is the big difference and a driver of fear outside of the EU. In Canada I found the police, by-law enforcers, and almost any official are essentially rules based robots, very much different to my experience in the UK. Thank you for teaching me about rules-based and principles-based regulation. This is one of the big reasons I enjoy living in Europe tbh, a bit of discretion and old 'common sense' is actually quite an awesome thing.

>>ajeet_+(OP)
Why should we trust the EU?

The EU’s digital commissioner said in 2015 that the EU should use regulation to "replace today’s Web search engines, operating systems and social networks" with EU companies.[1]

And they've passed or proposed ridiculous laws like cookie warnings and link taxes. We have reason to be suspicious of their intentions.

1: https://www.wsj.com/articles/eu-digital-chief-urges-regulati...

>>leeree+DK1
You have to keep in mind that the EU is not as integrated as the US on a political level. You need diplomatic leeway to get everyone to agree to do anything: instead of saying "this is what we'll do", it's "this is more or less what we do, everyone gets to fill in the details on their own". Without that level of flexibility and autonomy for individual countries, they would block the legal process even more than they are now.

As for the link tax: I would blame the publishers pushing for it, not the EU.

>>vander+ED4
The corpse doesn't care who held the knife.