European Union lawmakers have approved a new consumer protection regulation that, among other things, allows for the wholesale blocking of websites without the need for judicial authorization.
The reasoning seems innocuous enough on the surface. More than a third of online shops and booking websites were found to be breaching EU consumer laws, when a survey was made a few years ago. So new rules are needed to make enforcement of those laws more effective.
Under the new Consumer Protection Cooperation (CPC) regulation—which, like all regulations, introduces uniformity to its enforcement across the EU—member states must be able to get help from domain registrars to identify rogue traders, conduct “mystery shopping” investigations, and order the “explicit display of a warning to consumers.”
Read more:
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2017/11/get-ready-whole-lot-site-blocking-eu-thanks-new-consumer-protection-law/
and
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2017/11/european-union-just-decided-to-block-websites-without-due-process-for-consumer-protection/