The US scrapped alcohol prohibition due to its unintended side effects, and is increasingly scrapping marijuana prohibitions.
Often the downsides do outweigh their utility.
Often the downsides do outweigh their utility.
Guess we don't need food safety laws anymore, prohibition was bad!
Surely you can understand the difference between prohibition and consumer-protection laws? They aren't even like, the same field of laws.
From the perspective of ordinary users, GDPR was a pretty successful law with no real downsides. Businesses have to be more careful with data, that's about it.
There is over regulation in some areas, but lets be real: it's already extremely difficult to break into existing sectors, just as a result of industrialization, brand recognition, etc. The idea of the scrappy upstart is overwhelmingly a fantasy. This regulation won't prevent any businesses worth forming from getting underway, in my opinion.
More like, "almost never do the down sides outweigh their utility, because they aren't designed by idiots".