Other than people who actually profit of personal data, I have not met one person who isn't in favor of the GDPR. This law is different.

It is similar to an ordinance saying “starting tomorrow, you may not dump your sewage in the sea”. It might cost you to get proper disposal services, and if your business was about disposing to the sea, you’ll probably have to close shop.

But new houses wont dispose to the sea in the first place. And it will be better for everyone.

But link tax and upload monitor? How do you avoid that? Never link to anything and never allow any uploads? What about comments, they could contain important excerpt from some book owned by EU publishers.

yeah!

Also, only people who have something to hide are too attached to privacy /s

GDPR prefers, in the grand scheme of things, the privacy and anonymity of 400M European to the bottom line of 50-100 companies, most of which aren't based in Europe.

Lack of privacy hurts & benefits ... who, exactly? Mostly the same (except it's more like 1000-5000 companies, but still).

If your business was profiting specifically by exploiting personal information, this would be a sad day for you but a "good riddance" moment for the rest of the world. If you have a legitimate business that isn't underpinned by such odious behaviors, this demands a small review of your business practices but is generally a good thing.

> It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

That's some kind of weird hyperbole that doesn't make much sense.

I hope all the other countries follow suit and then the only thing we will be able to aim for is a job in these government bodies or the few surviving monopolies.

The rest of the world will ignore the EU, while the EU continues to dig its own grave.

I agree. I can't seem to understand why would someone propose something as stupid as the linktax. So my brain came up with this weird reason. Nevertheless, the world will come up with something. It always does.

Yeah but there's nothing wrong with that per se. It's the EU's choice to return to the stone age. There are Amish communities in the US where nobody has computers and their primary form of transportation is horses and buggies [1]. The rest of the world will simply move on, and like Amish communities, those in the EU that wish to participate in modern society can simply move.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish

I assure you the majority would rather have free services than self righteous lack there of.

The majority do not want nor really care about Privacy to such an extent. The majority do not see themselves as easily manipulated, and do not see the harm.

I happen to agree and think the EU has killed the economy in the name of something no one really wants.

So the only possible argument similar to what you are saying is that in the time since the last set of elections, the population changed its preference and it's not yet reflected in the parliaments.

>I assure you the majority would rather have free services than self righteous lack there of.

It's not free if they sell your data.