This is the most mind blowingly stupid thing I've ever witnessed..and in slow motion...I'm just astonished that the EU is cheerfully walking themselves into destroying the freedoms of their own citizens without much of fight.

The most privacy-obsessed people on earth are now handing a detailed log to their entire digital lives over to a group of barely-elected 3rd party overlords as well as foreign companies and intelligence agencies (if you think this won't be instantly compromised, you're tremendously naive).

...AND at the same time this is cementing monopolies for foreign tech companies within Europe. A double whammy of self-harm.

There's something very bleak about couching this under the 90s-era "protect the children" narrative too, given ultimately most Europeans care so little about children that they've rapidly stopped giving birth to them and in many countries have outsourced all childcare to the state.

It's not even a believable cover story anymore.

It seems more like the European officials looked over at the Chinese Communist Party's authoritarian control over the internet and thought to themselves, "Wow, look how little push back they get to their policies online! I want to do big fancy projects with other peoples money and have no accountability or transparency too!"