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Well, yeah. They have no way to enforce this on non-commercial forms of communication, like many open source projects. So the outcome will be that they will have an initial result of catching a lot of small criminals, but all real dangerous criminals will use anything else and continue business as usual. As a collateral damage everyone else will be less private and secure, as most people will not bother to switch to alternatives.
It is good to see that countries are at least trying to keep up apearances. However, the problem is still there: money decides whether targets are met or not.
The article seems to focus on the fact that it's hard to do "content moderation well at scale". Wouldn't such legislation discourage creation and growth of giant social media "platforms", giving more space for more local, smaller communities?
ELI15 Why are car companies in Europe so stuck with cars other than eletric? Shouldn't eletric have better margins and include State/European incentives? And it is also cheaper in the long run for the consumer.