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The EU Cyber Resilience Act will effectively make open-source software illegal, and that sure as hell isn’t pro-consumer. Neither is all the spooky surveillance and crippled cryptography they keep trying to mandate.
Yeah, it’s always very two sided with the EU. On the one hand it brings forward a lot of progressive and positive change, on the other hand it’s used to “quietly” walk around the local political climate. Political actors push unpopular things on the EU level, but as soon as people catch wind of it, they market themselves as always having disagreed with them. They often keep pushing for it anyway, because people really don’t notice things on the EU level. Everybody only ever pays attention to the national sphere of politics.
In German politics it’s often the case that high-ranking national politicians that “fail” in the public eye are pushed higher up into the EU level. Take Ursula von der Leyen for example. Too many scandals in Germany, immediately pushed out of the way and now holds an important position in the EU.
That’s what you call representative democracy. The EU is not one person. It’s run by thousends of politicians in hundreds of parties and dozens of countries.
Expecting a unified viewpoint of all of these is simplemindend.
Nobody would say “All governments ever of country X is like this and that”.
Because on the local level most people understand that the government changes when a different party is elected and thus there is no “values/goals continuity” between different parties. If you have a left-wing government after a right-wing government, you’d expect some changes.
But with the EU, for some reason, many people think it’s just a single, constant person who runs it and keeps changing their agenda.
Don’t forget that the EU is controlled by people who know NOTHING about technology. Case in point: the cookies.
You mean the GDPR, the amazing piece of legislation that allows any user to see all the tracking websites do and even allows the user to limit said tracking, just by deselecting some toggle switches?
Incidentally, it’s mostly people who know NOTHING about technology who keep complaining that it’s sooo hard to click a button.
It was close to never happen again, i guess
