> It is stunning that critical thinking is now so bad that they can convince a majority of MEPs this is not a complete fantasy. I don't think MEPs are dumb or

> It is stunning that critical thinking is now so bad that they can convince a majority of MEPs this is not a complete fantasy. I don't think MEPs are dumb or incompetent for anything other than choosing the wrong people to advise them on technical issues. Consider that not everyone necessarily understands how internet content even works. Politicians don't even seem to understand that you can't "just scan content that infringes on copyright"; that you have to scan the content precisely to find out if it does so. What worries me is how they don't admit that they don't understand the situation. That they blindly believe that they can get a rough understanding of things and create good laws easily. What worries me even more is how they ignored the clear protest from large parts of the population and just powered through it as fast as they could. It's the same as with GDPR; they only hurt the small guys because they don't understand what they're even making the law for.