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So is GDPR the "good" part of it and we should just reject Chat Control? Or is GDPR also some sort of trojan horse that sounds great, but has downsides

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The EU is a big organization woth a lot of prople with different agendas. It was easier for the privacy advocates to regulate companies thsn for them to stop government surveillance. So far the Parliament has mamsged to block new surveillance.

Yeah, I know. I'd just heard rumblings GDPR has flaws but considering how predatory corporations are I'm very willing to give it the old college try

The GDPR is not a trojan horse. Rather, it did too little, too late. There are no negatives to it that I am aware of.

GDPR et. al favor, and entrench, larger business firms and (relatively) handicap smaller firms.

I’m not in full opposition but people should understand that there is a downside.

But the thing is I thought GDPR incorporated a scaling thing

The pressure to comply I thought was less with smaller corps

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