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> banning IC engines, mandating dongle size, and giving the world cookie popups?

Am I meant to think that: banning one of the biggest contributors to climate change, lessening walled gardens and e-waste, and giving us more control of our own data are bad things?

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They are if you drink the megacorp coolaid. There's so much opinion making going on by companies that have a lot to lose from this stuff. Remember when Facebook said that GDPR would mostly hurt small businesses that use Facebook for targeted ads? That one didn't really stick, but those types of stories are getting people to defend corporate interests even though they have no real reason to.

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