European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries

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European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries
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For every good thing they do 2 bad things come next. The grass is always greener On the other side.

Curiously as someone who only usually sees the greener side. As a US Citizen, what EU laws would I be shocked to see?

There's currently a law in the pipeline that would scan all conversations, videos and images sent over social networks as well as chat apps like Whatsapp for illegal material. It would also include backdoors in encryption technologies and possibly banning any services that don't comply with the scanning, e.g. Signal. Love the EU in principle, but unfortunately it's often used by national governments to push things like increased surveillance.

Well... I can cite a few laws. First, the part that protect DRM, second, the law that require search engines to make contract to quote article, third, the interest in policing private communication, and last, a project that isn’t really advanced to infringe net neutrality.

I doubt a US citizen will be shocked about them. But they are likely to dislike them.

(but I tend to see the greener side of "for 1 bad things, 2 good things come next")