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How could those possibly solve the problem? They won't remove the cost of complying with GDPR. [Edit: sorry, I didn't get the sarcasm :) ]

akerro 8y ago
It was sarcasm, all 3 articles once implemented on EU scale will make web even worse than GDPR made it.
- blunte 8y ago
  Only when the politicians have a low enough average age that they actually use computers themselves (and find out how unusable the web is already) will they possible revise or eliminate the restrictions. One big problem with tech regulation right now, particular that which involves the internet, is that the old farts making the rules are barely skilled enough to send emails. Not only do they have no concept of how they're ruining things, but they don't have to suffer the consequences. Imagine if every time they changed the channel on their TV, they had to stop and drive a cursor to _somewhere_ on the screen to find the correct button to press to get past the popup and watch the channel they were hoping to watch.
  - ucaetano 8y ago
    Yep, there is a divide between the old people in power who know economics, markets and regulation but have no idea how "technology" works, and the young voters who understand the technology, but without an understanding of how the economics work.
    - blunte 8y ago
      I think you're much too generous. You can look at political decisions in most countries and see that politicians don't, on average, understand economics. For that matter, a great many economic theories (which are often presented as facts) don't hold up when tested. In summary, economics is hard. But making something (internet/web) increasingly unusable is just pure ignorance.
      - ucaetano 8y ago
        > I think you're much too generous. Oh, definitely! Those in power don't understand that much of economics, and those voting don't really understand that much of technology.

akerro 8y ago

It was sarcasm, all 3 articles once implemented on EU scale will make web even worse than GDPR made it.

blunte 8y ago
Only when the politicians have a low enough average age that they actually use computers themselves (and find out how unusable the web is already) will they possible revise or eliminate the restrictions. One big problem with tech regulation right now, particular that which involves the internet, is that the old farts making the rules are barely skilled enough to send emails. Not only do they have no concept of how they're ruining things, but they don't have to suffer the consequences. Imagine if every time they changed the channel on their TV, they had to stop and drive a cursor to _somewhere_ on the screen to find the correct button to press to get past the popup and watch the channel they were hoping to watch.
- ucaetano 8y ago
  Yep, there is a divide between the old people in power who know economics, markets and regulation but have no idea how "technology" works, and the young voters who understand the technology, but without an understanding of how the economics work.
  - blunte 8y ago
    I think you're much too generous. You can look at political decisions in most countries and see that politicians don't, on average, understand economics. For that matter, a great many economic theories (which are often presented as facts) don't hold up when tested. In summary, economics is hard. But making something (internet/web) increasingly unusable is just pure ignorance.
    - ucaetano 8y ago
      > I think you're much too generous. Oh, definitely! Those in power don't understand that much of economics, and those voting don't really understand that much of technology.