> It will be interesting to see whether American and European views of the internet converge or diverge in the long term. I've noticed that American norms tend

> It will be interesting to see whether American and European views of the internet converge or diverge in the long term. I've noticed that American norms tend to flow towards the old world, and the reverse is rarely true, the GDPR being the most impressive counter-example I've seen. This is a pretty common meme, but it's hardly true. For example, from a proposal introduced (ironically) on the same day GDPR enforcement began: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/eus-copyright-proposal-extremely-bad-news-everyone-even-especially-wikipedia https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/eus-copyright-proposal.... On the matter of copyright: while the US takes a lot of flak for its treatment of copyright law in a number of high-profile cases, in a lot of ways, Europe has consistently led the trend towards more corporate-friendly copyright law. The first extension of copyright terms in the US was actually done explicitly to harmonize US law with European law at the time (though it's since been extended further). Furthermore, several EU countries already have much stricter laws or stricter enforcement of laws that make it more difficult to access content over Bittorrent - including content shared legally! - compared to the US. The UK already has passed laws banning a whole slew of pornography that's legal in most of the world (including the rest of the EU and the US), and laws requiring identity verification for accessing pornographic sites.