Those laws have re-shaped the entire internet.

Laws are designed to have an effect, that is their purpose. However, the changes did not live up to the hysteria. Most of the doomsday predictions were so embarrassing in retrospect that the original articles have since been taken down.

Questionable.

Low effort responses are disregardable.

The DMCA is pretty terrible.

GDPR is fine. The only annoying thing about it is the petulant malicious compliance banners that some sites started using in response. Unfortunately it didn’t destroy the ad/tracking based internet, but that was probably too optimistic.

The GDPR has had huge and shitty impact on the entire internet. It's night and day with cookie banners on every website. DMCA has pros and cons. But it's clear the lack of real penalties for bogus copyright notifications leads to abuse.

The cookie banners aren’t mandated by the GDPR, they are malicious sites’ response to the GDPR.

They were/are and entirely predictable response.

The broader issue with GDPR is the benefit it gives incumbents over startups.

It might not be the best result, but at least the bad sites are identifying themselves.

Lol, when GDPR came out one of our euro devs was threatening to walk out if we didn't put a banner up because he thought he'd be personally fined.

Now it's obvious of course.

Where did I claim cookie banners were mandated by the GDPR? I don't think this is responsive to my comment.

The GDPR is unrelated to the internet. It is very deep and protects my personal information in every company. Please educate yourself.

This is not responsive to my comment.

I don't know who said "destroy" but COPPA and the DMCA have had a lot of negative effects. And some positive ones too, but it's hard to argue they succeed in their objectives at all really, and easy to see the harms.

They didn't destroy the internet, but they did embolden the platforms at the cost of smaller players, who couldn't step up