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> People understand that a T-Mobile customer can send a text to an AT&T customer. They understand that a Samsung owner can call an iPhone owner. That was a har
by senko 3y ago
> People understand that a T-Mobile customer can send a text to an AT&T customer. They understand that a Samsung owner can call an iPhone owner.
That was a hard-won victory: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsbury_Commitment https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsbury_Commitment
A hundred years later, we've got the same story, except today's Big Tech had wised up.
- PaulHoule 3y agoThe EU can do better than spamming us with cookie popups. They'd like to be relevant, why don't they try passing legislation for this?
- senko 3y agoThey do try: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36324118 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36324118 But keep in mind that EU legislature (and "government", such as it is) is as dysfunctional as the US one, just in different ways, don't expect much enlightened lawmaking there either.