With the style of regulation preferred by the EU, I’m afraid the end result will be the death of independent websites and the establishment of a handful of de f

With the style of regulation preferred by the EU, I’m afraid the end result will be the death of independent websites and the establishment of a handful of de facto official websites that have the resources to follow all of the regulations, just like TV. This may just be some inevitable fact about humanity. We’ve seen this sort of regulation and ultimate centralization of every single communications medium going back to the printing press. When I was younger, I legitimately believed the web would be different. I thought it would be a decentralizing, democratizing force for peace in the world. Now it seems destined to be the opposite of those things: a centralized tool for polarization and control.