[pornel]

> simply ban

When you're up against billion-dollar corporations with lobbyists and PACs, there's no "simply" there.

GDPR has been twisted and watered down from "don't collect non-essential private data" into "slap an annoying cookie notice that makes the government look stupid, and continue business as usual".

[unknown_abyss]

While lobbying is a problem, your comment dramatically exaggerates the issue. GDPR brought a lot of positive change, the best of it being the right to delete your data, and ask what data someone has on you.