On point 1. Tech illiteracy is something that affects an organization, it is independent of whether some individuals in that organization understand the issues

On point 1. Tech illiteracy is something that affects an organization, it is independent of whether some individuals in that organization understand the issues involved. I am not arguing that nobody at the EU understands technology, but that key people pushing forward certain pieces of legislation have a severe lack of technical background. On point 2. My argument is that the EU is fundamentally legislating wrong. The laws they create are extremely complex and very hard to decipher, even by large corporate law teams. The EU does not create laws which clearly outlaw certain behaviors, they create corridors of compliance, which legislate how corporations have to set up processes to allow for certain ends. This makes adhering to these laws extremely difficult, as you can not figure out if something you are trying to do is illegal. Instead you have to work backwards, start by what you want to do, then follow the law backwards and decipher the way bureaucrats want you to accomplish that thing. I do not particularly care about cookie banners. They are just an annoying thing. But they clearly demonstrate how the EU is thinking about legislation, not as strict rules, but as creating corridors. In the case of cookie banners the EU bureaucrats themselves did not understand that the corridor they created allowed basically anyone to still collect user data, if they got the user to click "accept". The EU creates corridors of compliance. These corridors often map very poorly onto the actual processes and often do little to solve the actual issues. The EU needs to stop seeing themselves as innovators, who create broad highly detailed regulations. They need to radically reform themselves and need to provide, clear and concise laws which guarantee basic adherence to the desired standards. Only then will their laws find social acceptance and will not be viewed as bureaucratic overreach.