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Wait until the EU commission hears about it. I have a feeling that they’re not going to let this fly.
by nerbert 6y ago
Wait until the EU commission hears about it. I have a feeling that they’re not going to let this fly.
- pedro2 6y agoI hope so. But we have to be vigilant: “Big Tech's aggressive EU lobby caused a shift in power” [1] [1] https://www.europeandatajournalism.eu/News/Data-news/Big-Tech-s-aggressive-EU-lobbying-has-caused-a-power-shift https://www.europeandatajournalism.eu/News/Data-news/Big-Tec...
- supernova87a 6y agoI am actually a little puzzled by this, and maybe you can explain the position. Suppose that there is a consumer market for something, and people have shown their preferences, and are actually demonstrating that they actually don't want something (issue, feature, functionality). Are you saying that regulators should come in and force rules that satisfy the desires of say, 5% of users (if even that), to the detriment of the rest? Who are they to contradict the choices of the rest of the people? I mean, this is not like carbon regulation or pollution where someone's individual action has a negative shared cost on everyone else. What principle are we to apply then? There are tons of other 5% issues too -- which ones will be put into regulation? I think it's important to differentiate when your desire for something is personal and you want a company to do something despite others not caring about it, versus when there is actually harm being done and needs to be regulated.