> Is it even corruption, or is it more a lack of philosophical cohesion? It's corruption. People just don't want to see it. The same way people compare health

> Is it even corruption, or is it more a lack of philosophical cohesion? It's corruption. People just don't want to see it. The same way people compare health systems to the US to pretend they're not royally screwed and corrupt. > I know that the US and most of Europe differ wildly on their understanding of monopoly protection. Extrapolating, I wonder if different EU members differ broadly on what constitutes "privacy" and therefore one might expect somewhat inconsistent results on privacy decisions based on who's hand holds the tiller that day. Not really. Every other country is trying to ban encryption, further ban speech, ban criticism of politicians to "protect children", I'm sorry, to protect "minorites" this time around. And this is not just EU, UK and other non-EU members have the same issues. The point is, for whatever reason, these countries which are absolutely corrupt but have very status quo parliamentary systems with little political involvement, get treated as if they didn't have entrenched corrupt politicians who couldn't give less of a fuck, about privacy or the citizen in general. You just have to be involved a little in the country's politics and you see it.