"Protecting" consumers by blocking websites

[Jan]

"Protecting" consumers by blocking websites

Last week, the European Parliament passed a new*Consumer Protection Regulation.

 

[Vio]

Welcome to 1984.

 

[rrh]

And there are those who wonder "why Brexit", even for a super-nanny state such as the UK ?

 

[Sl8er]

Regrettably, the Regulation is now law—and is required to be enforced by all European states. It is both ironic and tragic that a law intended to protect consumers actually poses such a dire threat to their right to freedom of expression.

It's all intentional.

 

[crackersa]

No court order needed?!?!?!

That’s some bullschit

 

[Arthur]

It won't be long before Europeans wake up in a fascist tyranny. All the laws and controls are pretty much in place. All that's need is a change in mood.

 

[sajunky]

As usual Australian come first. /testing grounds/

 

[HavocXphere]

And there are those who wonder "why Brexit", even for a super-nanny state such as the UK ?

hahaha

The UK is about 20 steps ahead of these rules already - just getting the kiddie filter removed from your data contract is a mission. This EU one is very tame by comparison since it's "where no other effective means are available".

UK side even after you entered credit card details to prove that you're a grown adult (multiple cards since it's fussy) it still has some filtering enabled...though that part is fairly arbitrary as to what gets blocked

But European consumer law has some perplexing provisions that have drawn ridicule, including a compulsory warning against children blowing up balloons unsupervised and a restriction on abnormally curved bananas.

Curved banana thing never made it into law.