European. Contrarian liberal. Insufferable green. History graduate. I never downvote opinions and I do not engage with people who downvote mine. Low-effort comments with vulgarity or snark will also be (politely) ignored.
Sure, but this was completely predictable. The bureaucrats were not going to win this battle in a world where laws are not enforceable across borders. They should have gone about this task in a different way which would not completely predictably result in this counter-productive outcome.
At last! The cookie law has been a spectacular own goal. If we truly care about privacy and free computing, we should have been promoting the Web with both hands, not making it unusable. As an open software platform, the Web is now the only game left in town.
IMO this episode was a decent litmus test of how much we value free speech, and indeed freedom of thought. Apparently we just don’t so much, these days.