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Protecting people from themselves is stupid

Why do you care about the profits of large corporations?

I would even go so far as to say it's morally wrong to protect people from themselves by removing their freedom.

>I don't care about the profits of large corporations
Okay. So what does "yet, it's a smart business decision" mean then?

Yes, but when he posted https://ligma.pro/users/r000t/statuses/110567390445253890 it seemed to me that he was saying there are good reasons for doing that.

I don't care as much when they regulate large corpos from doing anti-consumer things as when they regulate people's speech, or use of end-to-end encryption.
Am I a hypocrite for thinking that way?

That's a good point.
There are reasons for having glued-in batteries that the EU either didn't think about or didn't care about. Which is a good argument for leaving it up to the market.
It's just disappointing that there are so few smartphone manufacturers that don't do that.

>GDPR is being used daily to chill projects and speech by randoms like you and me.
Where?

His latest project, a fedi search engine.

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
― C.S. Lewis