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Not many governments have a good track record with regards to regulating IT. My local government (Denmark) cannot even respect basic human rights in their IT la

Not many governments have a good track record with regards to regulating IT. My local government (Denmark) cannot even respect basic human rights in their IT laws, and even when said laws are deemed a human rights violation, they refuse to remove them, instead leaving them in place while claiming they'll be "revised". There are also many other issues where EU does better than IT. Food safety, environment regulations and trade agreements, just to mention a few. While smaller units are almost universally better (imagine how different history would have been if the provinces of China had been independent countries), but does mean that each individual country must make many more agreements on their own, and have to shape their own regulations for things like food safety and environmental efforts, which might not turn out as well if they are not forced by the collective.

marcrosoft 8y ago
> While smaller units are almost universally better I completely agree. In my opinion it should go down to the individual level. Let's say China had independent states/countries per province. And, they all agreed to a set of laws individually but disagreed as a collective set of laws. This would mean that most citizens would suffer as the laws are (at best) an average of the opinions of all citizens of China. Being an average, most people would have at least one disagreement on how a particular law should or should not be. There will be of course some some people that lie on the exact average. These lucky people would be 100% fairly represented. In order to be fair ultimately law needs to favor the individual, not a country, state, or other larger group.