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What are the chances that the EU will come in a year and mandate that “all messages must have the same color” and use it as an excuse that having some blue bubb

What are the chances that the EU will come in a year and mandate that “all messages must have the same color” and use it as an excuse that having some blue bubbles and some green colors is harming the mental health of children?

schroeding 4y ago
Very slim, as this is appears to be a very american problem. It's normal for teenagers (and people in general) to have an Android phone in Europe. It isn't anymore in the US.
- scarface74 4y ago
  But yet, the EU is mandating the USB C “standard” without going into details about which part of the standard is required still requiring you to know whether the USB C cable will actually transmit data and at what speed will it transmit video (something that USB required iPads already do and is a standard), etc
stjohnswarts 4y ago
More than likely it would start in California. I say we start a petition that the colors be indistinguishable. Be the change that you want to see, I'm looking at the man in the mirror.
enragedcacti 4y ago
The contrast between your perception of the EU and their actual positions is pretty entertaining to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Markets_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Markets_Act https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/04/eu-digital-markets-acts-interoperability-rule-addresses-important-need-raises https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/04/eu-digital-markets-act...
- scarface74 4y ago
  So you mean my perception that the EU is run by a bunch of bureaucrats who don’t understand technology, stymie innovation and don’t think about unintended consequences? Do you think there may be a reason that hardly any successful technology companies come out of the Eu?
  - enragedcacti 4y ago
    maybe 'perception' was the wrong word, moreso attacking them on imagined grounds of legislating trivialities of message color instead of commenting on the actual (highly publicized) sweeping changes they are already making to attempt to address the problem.
    - scarface74 4y ago
      That worked out really well with the 99 section 11 chapter GDPR. All it got us was cookie consent banners.
      - enragedcacti 4y ago
        Have a good one

schroeding 4y ago

Very slim, as this is appears to be a very american problem. It's normal for teenagers (and people in general) to have an Android phone in Europe. It isn't anymore in the US.

scarface74 4y ago
But yet, the EU is mandating the USB C “standard” without going into details about which part of the standard is required still requiring you to know whether the USB C cable will actually transmit data and at what speed will it transmit video (something that USB required iPads already do and is a standard), etc

stjohnswarts 4y ago

More than likely it would start in California. I say we start a petition that the colors be indistinguishable. Be the change that you want to see, I'm looking at the man in the mirror.

enragedcacti 4y ago

The contrast between your perception of the EU and their actual positions is pretty entertaining to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Markets_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Markets_Act https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/04/eu-digital-markets-acts-interoperability-rule-addresses-important-need-raises https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/04/eu-digital-markets-act...

scarface74 4y ago
So you mean my perception that the EU is run by a bunch of bureaucrats who don’t understand technology, stymie innovation and don’t think about unintended consequences? Do you think there may be a reason that hardly any successful technology companies come out of the Eu?
- enragedcacti 4y ago
  maybe 'perception' was the wrong word, moreso attacking them on imagined grounds of legislating trivialities of message color instead of commenting on the actual (highly publicized) sweeping changes they are already making to attempt to address the problem.
  - scarface74 4y ago
    That worked out really well with the 99 section 11 chapter GDPR. All it got us was cookie consent banners.
    - enragedcacti 4y ago
      Have a good one