From the American point of view, the entire EU has bought into something very heavy-handed in terms of the GDPR, but IIUC the GDPR is pretty popular in the UK (though full compliance with it technically requires one not even run a default-configured Apache server).
This characterization is dishonest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iludfj6Pe7w
Please don't bother with equivocations.
Link that doesn't require YouTube age assertion:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2022/jun/10/unseen...
I agree that the characterization as "people milling around the rotunda taking selfies" is grossly misleading.
At least some of the people were plainly not intending or doing "run of the mill protest".
Listening to Trump on that day, his speech is worse than I'd thought. (I'm not connected to the USA so I don't follow closely.)
Is it though? The same problem that gave us the Capitol's storming also skews those people's concerns, so the legislation they'd demand would be anything but reasonable.
That's like calling 9/11 "a few planes being temporarily diverted from their flight paths".
The facts[0] paint a different picture:
"13 percent of those nearly 700 arrested as of early December are members of militia groups like the Oath Keepers or extremist groups like the Proud Boys."
> could have been avoided by winning by clear and resounding margins
If you don't care about the clear and resounding margin of the popular vote, or care about the voter suppression efforts in red states, or the fact that Biden won 74 more electoral votes than Trump, then I don't know what to tell you.
> by having a track record of passing legislation that people want
You're basically saying "Unless the winners pass exactly the legislation that the losers want, then the losers will resort to violence". You're advocating for terrorism. Anyway, you might be surprised to know that the Republicans had control of at least half of the legislature since 2015, so the 1/6 rioters really should have directed most of their anger towards the GOP.
[0] https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/01/january-6-capito...
Yeah it wasn't 9/11. It was more like a 2005 myspace flash-mob that was part of a poorly thought out product promotion.
> ... popular vote ...
We don't elect by the simple popular vote. Amend the constitution to change the rules. By the current rules, it was a squeaker. The "battle ground states" are battle grounds not because of widespread voter suppression, but because the brand of the other team is so bad there.
> You're advocating for terrorism.
Yeah. Medicare for all is terrorism I guess.
Ultimately the only people who benefit as the internet gets more and more locked down and more and more regulated is the people at the top who are able to reassert control of the information those unwashed masses receive.