To fix a problem, you need to frame the problem correctly. And at least in the political sphere, money or talent is not even up for discussion. Even after the effects you mention.
They made a mistake by releasing all the stings together. They should have released a few first so other players can pounce upon in a hurry to tweet. That would have atleast got the discussion started.
Infact "Economic Times" (part of Times Group, who's CEO was in the sting) did happen to write about it and later deleted it.
It's not stopping any well intended company from fairly using data. A law making it harder for well intentioned gun enthusiasts from getting guns is a good law according to me. All well intentioned gun enthusiasts should support it. Otherwise there'd be a day people would get tired of the bad intentioned gun owners and legislate a complete ban on guns.
Also I like the cookie idea. If only people really cared about misuse of their data they'd like it too. We've seen how good 3rd party cookies have been for some democracies.
If a regulation is going to impact "innovative" startups that sell my data, I am totally for it. I don't want more innovative ways to sell my personal information.
Google can't make it work because they need to sell out there users. A random company does not need to do that. Even google doesn't do that if you're an enterprise user. So you see google does make it work if you pay them. The same way you can pay a random company.
Yes, losing passport is exactly that. Logging out makes me unable to access normal abilities a twitter user(american citizen) has. If passport analogy doesn't suit you, try incarceration.
India still manages to produce godmen like him. The latest one on the top of the list is 'Sri Sri Ravishankar'.
Previous to him was one called 'Asaram', but he and his son are behind bars now, for raping several women.