There will be pushback in some countries. Some countries simply won't be able to afford to do it, or have entrenched corruption that will weaken it so much it's ineffective. I know for sure Bulgaria will give lip service to it and pocket the money, that's the culture there. And they have way more bandwidth per capita than the rest of europe, and much of it crosses the black sea and into Turkey. It's in their best interests to not be cooperative but to give lip service, since half the internet cables cross their land.
There may be crackdowns in the more fascist places, like yours, and this is sad, but the more liberal and privacy oriented the culture, in general, the less impact it will have.
They are just driving nails into the almost completely sealed coffin of the EU, and guaranteeing a substantial exodus from the already more totalitarian governments jurisdictions.
The fundamental error in their thinking comes from the fact that the most innovative people tend to also be the most unconventional, and those people are already on the alert. The brains will migrate to where their capabilities are valued and the ones that stay behind will do nothing to improve the already failing economies of europe.
Good view. Meanwhile we are forming a new type of monetary, peaceful and intellectual superior resistance that will attract more and more people at the upcoming turning point. Greets from the fu..ing cold costa del sol (15 degrees and sunshine which saves me today)
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