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There should be legal repercussions against anyone even suggesting something as blatantly illegal and tyrannical/totalitarian as this. Have we learn nothing from communism?

Globally destroying web experience by mandating super-useless, super-obnoxious Cookie prompts on all web pages is one thing, but setting things up for "Equilibrium" or "1984" type of society is a whole new level, and I'm not sure if sheer stupidity can be claimed on this one.

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We should monitor the EU ministers' private messages to make sure they aren't discussing subversive ideas such as totalitarian surveillance.

This actually makes the most sense.

I strongly hope that Google & Apple are already planning lawsuits against this. My next phone will be an Android with custom ROM if this passes with no protest.

You expect resistance from Apple? To me it sounds exactly like what they are trying to push.

> Globally destroying web experience by mandating super-useless, super-obnoxious Cookie prompts on all web pages is one thing

Nobody did that.

And yet they are on every website I visit and annoy me endlessly.

Enable the annoyances filters in ublock origin settings, gets rid of a lot of them, but not all

Wow, cool! I hadn't even seen that before. I enabled all the annoyances filters -- let's see what happens. I tip my hat off to you :)

Do you know what's funny? The sites make a big show of how they are "made to show this annoying popup", right

But funnily enough, the other 10 popups/banners/sliders etc to sign for their newsletters, promotions, etc are all voluntary then?

Ha! There is some good truth to this :)

Yes, but they are not mandated by anyone.

> Have we learn nothing from communism?

no? I mean, right now in most countries instead of "to protect the children" you could use the excuse of "to stop misinformation", "to prevent damage from antivaxxers" and the majority will cheer your censorship efforts.

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