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GDPR is not innovation-crippling, it is data collection and privacy invasion crippling.

• taf2 3y ago
  It’s not always the law directly that is impactful but all the additional work required to comply that takes resources away from doing innovative things things.
  • xxs 3y ago
    This is similar to telling that paying taxes and filling the reports take away from the innovative things.
    • hef19898 3y ago
      Hence, crypto.
      • dale_glass 3y ago
        Crypto was innovative for what, a year, before degenerating into a bunch of scams? I can somewhat respect the original idea, but what it turned into has no value whatsoever.
        • ben_w 3y ago
          If Douglas Adams wrote H2G2 today, what would be in place of digital watches in the quote: > Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. Smart phones and social media would clearly be high on the list, but I think cryptocurrency and AI would be, too.
          • dale_glass 3y ago
            I'm not sure what you're getting at. Smartphones are pretty darn useful. I use mine to watch videos, listen to music, browse the web, do network diagnostics, track my gym workouts, read my mail. I rarely actually use it as a phone, it's more of a very portable computer. For social media, we're on sort of a social media right now. We're talking. That's social. AI is pretty neat. I like the picture generation, it's fun to play with, and I don't see it going away.
            • ben_w 3y ago
              When it was written, people were genuinely impressed by digital watches, too.
              • dale_glass 3y ago
                Digital watches are still cool, they just lost relevance because we have clocks everywhere, so having one is mostly redundant. But otherwise, what's not to like? A simple, cheap, precise, extremely reliable tool that does one job, and does it excellently well. Even a cheap one has a much superior precision to the best mechanical watches ever made. The modern digital watch is pretty much perfect. If you go for something that's not the cheapest model, you can get one that will run on solar power and sync by radio, making it essentially work perfectly forever without maintenance or adjustment.
                • ben_w 3y ago
                  It sounds like you're taking the wrong direction with this; did you ever experience any of the H2G2 media? It — the whole thing not just that quote — takes the pedestal out from underneath all the cultural icons and institutions which we put on pedestals in the first place as reasons to think ourselves amazing. Watches were mocked precisely because they were a cultural symbol; I think the things I listed would also be. Likewise a character naming themselves after a car due to minimal research when trying to blend in with the natives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Prefect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Prefect
    • can16358p 3y ago
      And they are.
  • ben_w 3y ago
    It's very very easy to not collect user data. I've been failing to collect it for years before GDPR happened.
• MrStonedOne 3y ago
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• can16358p 3y ago
  Yeah, not innovation-crippling. That's why we now need to be paranoid on every row of data that we might be collecting which might be illegal due to the "visionary" EU regulations and focus on legality of everything, instead of well, coding a productive, useful service like the good old days. If this isn't the literal very definition of innovation-crippling, I don't know what is.