The trouble is that the people with power in the EU don't see this difference. They're convinced that Article 13 and the GDPR are both victories for the people

The trouble is that the people with power in the EU don't see this difference. They're convinced that Article 13 and the GDPR are both victories for the people against big tech, and that all the ordinary people who oppose Article 13 have just been tricked by Google into going against their own interests: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190215/18005841607/eu-commission-decides-to-mock-public-insists-fears-about-eu-copyright-directive-are-all-myths.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190215/18005841607/eu-co... The media are naturally happy to go along with the big tech vs people narrative too. The BBC even ran an article about all the great things the European Parliament has achieved in the run-up to the European elections that described Article 13 as one of its successes and summarized the controversy as follows: "Supporters say the rule helps to ensure that artists, musicians and other creators are fairly compensated. But tech companies say it will destroy user-generated content." They pretended the remarkable public backlash which got many MEPs (though not enough) to vote against it just didn't exist, turning a demonstration of how little say the public had into a success story for European democracy. It's not like this was even a European Parliament achievement in the first place; the details of the bill were dictated by Germany and France and MEPs merely ignored voters' complaints to rubber-stamp it.