[Jensson]

But all large browsers happens to be American. It makes sense that EU wants to regulate this rather than hand over all decisions related to trust to USA.

For example, imagine if all big browsers everyone uses where made in China, and mostly just trusted Chinese CA. Do you think that would be a problem? Do you think the rest of the world would just let that happen instead of starting to regulate it? That is the situation EU faces right now with American browsers.

[emteycz]

I never asked EU to do this for me, and don't want it. No government should have this power. Who did? I don't remember a single party having this in their program.

[Jensson]

If you don't like it then you can ask your country representatives to block it for your country, EU doesn't have the power to enforce anything locally. And if all of EU doesn't like it then you can vote out the people who did it and they will give new recommendations next cycle.

EU is safe in that way since the people making the legally binding laws to enforce them aren't the same people making the EU laws, so everything has to go through at least two levels of elected representatives to actually take effect. This means that if EU wants to spy on you then your country can block it, and if your country wants to spy via this system on you then they have to get approval from EU at least. Either way EU is an improvement over just having your local representatives.

[emteycz]

Wrong since at least 2009. The EU has the right to force regulations and directives - if the country doesn't implement EU law correctly, the EU can sue the state, stop the flow of donations and place sanctions...

The EU itself says so:

- https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-making-process/applying-eu...

- https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-making-process/applying-eu...