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This sounds like complete joke. Next another bill will ban pagination?

• umvi 7y ago
  Another bill will mandate that websites display a banner if the user has been there for too long (to protect internet addicts from being sedentary for too long). Pretty soon only big corps will be able to make a website because there is a phonebook sized stack of regulations you have to comply with.
  • somebodythere 7y ago
    Seems intentional.
    • fuzz4lyfe 7y ago
      It always is when it comes to regulation. If you find a regulation that seems to benefit the consumer more than the incumbent firms you don't understand that market well enough.
      • tomatotomato37 7y ago
        GDPR?
  • danShumway 7y ago
    > Another bill will mandate that websites display a banner if the user has been there for too long Why wait? From Ars's writeup of the same bill[0]: > As described in the text, social media companies would have to limit users to 30 minutes of use per day by default. Users would be allowed to choose their own time limits for daily and weekly use, but companies would have to reset that time limit to half an hour every single month, as well as providing "conspicuous pop-up" displays at least once every 30 minutes showing how much time you have spent using a service in the past day, across all devices. This is just political grandstanding. (I hope) nobody would ever actually vote for this. [0]: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/proposed-us-law-would-ban-infinite-scroll-autoplaying-video/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/07/proposed-us-law-...
    • davesmith1983 7y ago
      This is what they do on gambling websites in the UK. Similarly if you are in a Casino you will never see a clock anywhere. Also generally food and drink is pretty cheap and there is normally table service in a Casino because they want you to be at the tables spending your cash.