[hackeraccount]

What if - hypothetically - you came up with something safer then airbag & seatbelt? Even if all your customers found it to be self-evidently true that it was safer the only thing that would matter would be if the regulator thought it was safer. A regulator who is likely controlled by the incumbents.

Now with something like car safety it's easy to say - no one will come up with something like this or if they do then the regulator will immediately allow it. But what about something like Internet privacy? I think it's more likely in that case for the rules like the GPDR to be used to protect incumbents by keeping out competition.

[merinowool]

Not only that - this is great weapon to shut down websites that are against current political agenda since virtually every site could be found non complaint.