• Thank you for all these informations, and for the links.

    I’m not a lawer, but the laws seems to have several exceptions which could be used by an authoritarian government. They just have to call their opponents violent or terrorists

    • To be a EU member you need to be a liberal democracy, and if you aren’t a member the regulation doesn’t apply in the first place.

      There’s a lot of people who would like tighter restrictions on state use but ultimately parliament has to get the thing past a council majority so some concessions had to be made. File it under “better than nothing”.