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> The fight is never over.

Checks and balances are working this time hopefully. Regardless our (good) multi-stage processes and multi-chamber structure and even, regardless matters of lobbying and money - in the moment of quiet while smoke is still on the wind - look for the shooter. "Who wants this?" and "What are their fears?" leads to a better leverage point closer to values than parameters.

There are a lot of people in the world right now anxious about the digital future. The EU Commission seem to hear too much from Chicken-Licken's gang of sky-repellant gizmo salesmen and not from calmer humane optimists.

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I can't see any specific benefit to this for a corporation, my feeling is it's a political response to a general disquiet with the tech industry abusing people, along the lines of "something must be done, this is something, therefore this must be done"

I'm sure some companies would make a fortune, but their lobbying power would be outweighed by other multinational companies like whatsapp and smaller companies like mullvad.