And the AI Act with the FLOPs limit?

Or the Cybersecurity Act increasing liability for selling software complete with a box-ticking exercise to force money into consultants?

Or the DSA creating loads of bureaucracy for "algorithmic" content when almost everything is an algorithm?

What's the comparative?

The US is restricting nvidias ability to ship GPU's because they're worried about AI. At least the EU's stance is: open, voted on and clear.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/us-govt-restricts-shipment...

Well, I consider software liability a good thing. Question is how to achieve this goal. Of course it's sad when a bureaucracy answers this with the only means a bureaucracy has: A box-ticking exercise.

This. Most EU regulations are common sense and/or don't apply to small companies.

Have a privacy policy, don't collect unnecessary user data, encrypt data properly, don't use cookies to track people outside what is needed for your website to function, and allow your users to access and delete their data. You should have already done that before GDPR, and if you did not, you're the reason we need the law.

Agreed about your points, not so much about paper drink straws.