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The internet, startups, and the values favored by most people in this thread are even more Classic American than the tendencies you deride. The US is complex. The US government is complex. Angry reductionism sheds no light.

So the freedom of the world now depends on the European Union, which we know is corrupt. Is there any way to buy shares in whatever method media giants use to bribe European politicians?

You obviously haven't been paying attention, then. Internationally there is a ton of support among governments and industries for measures like this to be taken; the general lack of support among the public hasn't been very relevant.

Yeah, I wasn't reading fully. Frankly I'm stunned that there is this much support, even from Asian countries, whom I thought would not like adopting something as restrictive as this.