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But it is. It's not nations themselves advocating or voting for it. It's the EU top-down trying to get this to pass and instructing the leaders of member countries how to push it through.
Strange, I didn't realize there was any non-liberal, anti-capitalist states within the EU.
I think you've misunderstood the point, what I'm saying is that these sorts of policies are an inevitable consequence of liberalism because it requires an oppressive level of population control to function. The internet is a threat to that control, and therefore liberal states have responded predictably and consistently by moving to create as many vectors of restriction and punishment as they can. The UK is not part of the EU, Canada (which has been pushing for this for half a decade now) isn't, Australia isn't, but they are all capitalist and imperialist liberal states.