Funny that that site announces it's using cookies in a pop-up that blocks much of the text before a click, per another EU reg. Not that we got the best UX from

Funny that that site announces it's using cookies in a pop-up that blocks much of the text before a click, per another EU reg. Not that we got the best UX from that one, where I'm constantly reminded cookies are a thing, via a large blocking box requiring user interaction, like a pop-up ad for something I already know and can totally control on my end. There's a saying about how internet considers censorship damage and routes around it? Maybe better: the internet considers regulations information, and anycasts them, regardless of their quality. China's a bit of a counterexample. Maybe the firewall is bidirectional, keeps democracy out and censorship in? Maybe that's the endgame, balkanization. Some people will get to live under paternalistic maximalism, some under authoritarians hunting dissidents, some under anarchocapitalism, all dystopias in their own special way. And some of us will flee to Tor and .onion sites and encrypted signatures where we manage our own privacy and prevent third parties from auditing our communications. Edit, "brevity."