Literally nobody is doing that.
Young EU supporters, like me, are the very people who were demonstrating against this.
We are caught between reckless Brexiteering nationalists and a lobby-bought EU parliament.
Young EU supporters, like me, are the very people who were demonstrating against this.
We are caught between reckless Brexiteering nationalists and a lobby-bought EU parliament.
I wouldn't say this is about "lobby-bought EU parliament". This is about the parliament routinely rubber-stamping everything. Rejections are extremely rare. This legislation had so wide opposition that there was a chance it won't pass. Even this passed. Consider how well the process works for things that aren't of so much public interest.
There was a large-scale poll, who cares what the small-scale polls say.
Of course, referendums aren't really polls. Polls have no official effect, you can freely refuse them and lose nothing.
It’s pessimistic as it assumes always corruption. But pragmatic as it minimizes corruption by maximiing the inefficiency and cost necessary for lobbies to spread cash more thinly and come into conflict with lobby arbitrage country by country. For example, copyright lobby might win in country #1, but hardware lobby wins in country #2 and we end up with conflicting laws in different countries. As opposed to both countries using the same laws so it comes down to which country spends the most money in total gets their law in both countries.
Of course, I think it would be better to have a law set that represents will of the people and Pareto frontier of max indicidual benefit and community benefit.
We already have three major international copyright treaties (Berne, UCC and TRIPS), two of which actually predate the EU, and the other was not primarily pushed by it, which set strict rules on how "independent" parliaments can legislate. So not having the EU doesn't seem to have helped.
The problem of EU lobbying, and inter-national divide-and-conquer? Yes, to some extent.
Framing this as politician's fallacy, action for the sake of action, suggests that lobbying won't be worse in the EU than at a local level. In reality, it's easier to consolidate a smaller same-nation population, than multiple international ones. Just look at how stereotypes are used to discredit - lazy greeks, racist little-englanders etc.