> The GDPR is Europe’s defence against digital oligarchy, child harm and foreign political interference.

What? No! That's not what the GDPR is for. What a dumb take! Watering down the GDPR is the wrong idea nonetheless, but for other reasons. For example, it would tell companies that malicious compliance works.

Europe has been digital vassals for the past 1/4 to 1/2 century. They care enough to endlessly whinge about that. But not enough to bother doing the sustained hard work needed escape from vassalage.