This scenario doesn't get enough attention and sympathy. Things have been going downhill with internet freedoms for a long while, with tech giants usurping cont

This scenario doesn't get enough attention and sympathy. Things have been going downhill with internet freedoms for a long while, with tech giants usurping content and the way we navigate the web etc. But, living in Sweden, I had not felt such a blow to my freedoms as when these signs started popping up, pretty much over night. Europeans especially seem to be quite alright with this law since it supposedly only protects them. But a regulation is always, by priciple, a resitriction on some freedom. The GDPR may in fact be quite benign, but to me it's an obvious slippery slope where it is not hard to see this thing indeed evolve into something like the firewall of China. The EU is transparently considering protectionism with things like railways and telecom where foreign nations want to invest in the EU infrastructure. It's naive to think anything else of the internet. The GDPR was the innocent first baby step towards the European Wide Web.