A lot of people are skimming the article or taking some of the points in bad faith - I'll jump to this point near the end. > It is the cases above, though, tha

A lot of people are skimming the article or taking some of the points in bad faith - I'll jump to this point near the end. > It is the cases above, though, that are thieving like the German publishers: it is one thing to regulate a market; it is another to straight up take a product or service on your terms, enabled by a company’s loyalty to its existing userbase. I might disagree with a lot of E.U. regulations, but I respect them and their right to make them; dictating business models or forcing a company to provide services for free, though, crosses the line from regulation to theft. His broader point isn't that these regulations are bad - but that regulators are using "privacy" to sell generally anti-tech regulations to rent seek or enrich their own local special interest groups. Actual consumers are being treated as a bargaining chip.