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Tone aside, she does point out one clear way this bill does hurt tech compared to other industries. The cost of entry into this space is really low compared to
by Folcon 4y ago
Tone aside, she does point out one clear way this bill does hurt tech compared to other industries.
The cost of entry into this space is really low compared to most other industries. You can very cheaply provide a reasonably competitive product.
One of the aspects of this bill that I do find worrying is that there are clear costs being added on that we're obligated to pay likely before we've validated the business works.
I do feel a lot of side-projects that could have gone to become viable businesses will never be released with this bill in place. Who wants to expose themselves to costs to try out a fun idea?
A lot of what she's arguing for could have been covered similarly to GDPR if there were carve outs for smaller entities, which would have been easy to mention, the absence of them lends weight to her assertion that the goal of this bill as it stands is to generally increase political control of the tech sphere.
Even if that control only extends to and harms UK businesses...