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It just feels like it's a lot of effort to fight this big nested system while there are smaller systems around. You have your local laws to worry about, but then there's EU on top of that. Now, compare that to, say, Switzerland or Liechtenstein. Both have lower taxes compared to the EU. Switzerland has direct democracy and Liechtenstein is famous for the law allowing municipalities to secede.
Switzerland is effectively EU, just like Norway. They have to copy-paste almost every regulation in order to not be excluded from the common market. Yet they have no vote in it.
Direct democracy does not really help privacy, because only a tiny minority cares about it. Switzerland had the Travel Rule before it was EU law: https://notabene.id/world/switzerland
Don't get me wrong, I like mountains!
interesting! i thought it's the opposite and Switzerland has leverage because they are a successful economy. would love to read more on this.
The rest of the world not being a shithole :-)
In all seriousness, I can already avoid the age verification nonsense with things like Nostr. These are very bad laws, but it's not like a war where your house gets blown up and you have to leave.
The EU does have the benefit of being democratic enough that one can publicly push back on these bad laws, so that's worth doing occasionally. And having worked on open source digital wallets (for Bitcoin) for over a decade, I'm familiar with the trade-offs, so it's a relatively small effort for me to publicly document the serious privacy gaps. Then someone else can hopefully benefit from that and maybe translate it into legal action.