With this logic, there's essentially no regulatory way out of local minima, lemon markets and such. And, the freemium for personal data mining model is very mu

With this logic, there's essentially no regulatory way out of local minima, lemon markets and such. And, the freemium for personal data mining model is very much such a situation. And I don't think it's a fair statement that any large percentage of _people_ oppose this particular law; in my experience, most people don't seem to have a strong opinion about it, and those that do have a strong negative opinion very often don't really understand it (and are mostly reacting to the irritation that the various stakeholders are deliberately putting them through). Sampling the opinion of companies that live off ads is a bit like asking printer companies how they feel about toner prices.