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That like claiming "For 99% of consumers food safety regulations means nothing but annoying 'use by date'!"

Just because the effects are not obvious to a layman, doesnt they aren't there

I can play that courtroom drama game, too!

Right to restriction of processing is not right to restriction of storage. Trying to re-register with your banned e-mail address is consent to processing and subsequent refusal to serve the person.

I don't think that's true. I've watched a complete about face by companies when faced by the GDPR. Previously the attitude was to collect and store as much data as possible "just in case" it was later useful. With GDPR, management is suddenly aware of the legal liability of storing this data, and it's generally only stored if it's actually needed.