HN is US based. You'll have fun getting a law like that through in the US, or even the UK or EU. They do have a law like that in China I think.

I don’t know about the US, but in UK and the EU they are certainly trying to do just that. And if not today, the will simply cook us slowly a little longer until they succeed. The problem is, that regular people just don’t care enough.

There's a lot of things that used to be unthinkable in the US. Things that only evil governments in other (usually communist) countries did, but which now happen in the USA. It turns out there's not as much of a difference as you might think, and not much you can do to change that.

Give it a bit more time.

laws and enforcement are different things.

I get your overall point, but conflation of the two is inaccurate.

I agree, but they're highly correlated, so it's not that this doesn't affect anything.