You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It
The author argues that the intense criticism of GDPR by the tech industry is a sign of its effectiveness in challenging surveillance capitalism. The piece frames privacy regulations as a necessary friction against data-harvesting business models.
Why it matters
It offers a counter-narrative to the common tech-industry critique of privacy regulations, framing them as a moral success.
FDR has always been one of my favorite presidents, second maybe to Lincoln. Both were men the establishment assumed were one of them until, to their horror, they governed like they weren't. Both could trash the opposition in one breath and take the moral high ground in the next. One of my favorite Roosevelt lines growing up came from Madison Square Garden, October 1936, standing before a crowd that included plenty of people who wanted him dead:
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