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Right to be Forgotten, GDPR, and now this... pretty soon the barrier to entry will be so high that no new players would be able to get off the ground with an in
by umvi 8y ago
Right to be Forgotten, GDPR, and now this... pretty soon the barrier to entry will be so high that no new players would be able to get off the ground with an internet company in Europe.
- kowdermeister 8y agoI want to open a i-shirt store and I'm in the EU. None of these will prevent me. Edit: typo... t-shirt
- fuscy 8y agoI have no idea what i-shirt is but it's likely that if an user uses copyrighted material for his i-shirt, you'll have to pay because it's your platform. Bonus points for not using a censorship filter in trying to do this.
- diminoten 8y agoAsk him again about censorship in the EU when his most popular shirt is "Hitler did nothing wrong" or some other such nonsense.
- kowdermeister 8y agoNo UGC will be allowed and the text you add will not be displayed anywhere :)
- nothis 8y agoTry an i-Twitter or an i-Facebook.
- LoSboccacc 8y agovery innovative. meanwhile this will likely cost a lot to qwertee
- oldboyFX 8y agoIt almost seems like we're hell bent on suffocating what little amount of innovation we have left.
- pas 8y ago[citation needed] Right to be Forgotten affects search engines. GDPR is common sense, allow users to delete their data. If you make aggregate data of your users and their behavior then it's not their data anymore. Tax law is a lot more complicated yet never stopped anyone from innovating if there was an economic niche waiting for them.
- pitaj 8y agoAny regulation is a barrier to entry. The more complicated the regulation is, the worse it is for competition. Of course tax law has stopped people from innovating. It's one of the biggest drains on competition and economic growth. Taxes would be the biggest source of economic efficiency even if they weren't as complex as they are.
- progre 8y agoIt can work the other way too. GDPR is not very complicated and a new actor would have a big advantage in designing their system to be compliant from the start.
- pitaj 8y agoGDPR isn't so bad, but it is pretty vague. Holding IP Addresses in server logs may or may not violate GDPR.
- pas 8y agoIP addresses work pretty well for user discrimination (sure NAT can hide many users, but then there are other signals). However if you don't store raw logs forever it should be okay.
- dmitriid 8y agoYou can count on HN commenters to through oranges, shoes, and candy floss into the same bag and blame all of those disparate things for everything.
- 0x8BADF00D 8y agoIt’s almost like the EU is a failed experiment and it’s time to dissolve it.
- giornogiovanna 8y agoApologies for being dense, but: a) Regarding the right to be forgotten and GDPR, can't you handle it manually when you're small and automate it when you're big? Complaints should be proportional to the number of users, so it hardly seems like a problem. b) Article 13 is apparently "a proposal to end the appearance of unlicensed copyrighted works on big user-generated content platforms". I don't know what "big" means, but presumably it excludes "new players" that haven't gotten "off the ground".