Not really. Principles are borne of small communities because small communities can afford to be principles. Before software ate the world, the impact that da

Not really. Principles are borne of small communities because small communities can afford to be principles. Before software ate the world, the impact that damaging actors had was much more limited. A few computers would get a few viruses here and there but that was it. We live a world where computers have been integrated into the fabric of society, and where system risks do not have easy, principled answers. And if principles don't adapt and negotiate with reality, its defenders will just be isolated from the rest of society which can't afford to lose a lot of other things, which include other, possibly more important, principles. What changed with regards to GDPR was that 15 years ago there weren't Facebooks, Amazons, and other megacorps that had the personal data of 30% of the world's population available for their use. Tech monopolies encroached different product areas. What changed in 15 years is that we grew up, we acquired power, we became more integrated into society and as such the risk profiles change. You either do, or you become irrelevant like many of the Free Software activists who were a vanguard back then and whose opinion nowadays matters little.