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When you try to control something with regulation, don't ever expect good faith. Expect exactly what you legislate, no more. (And expect unintended consequences
by JoshTriplett 3y ago
When you try to control something with regulation, don't ever expect good faith. Expect exactly what you legislate, no more. (And expect unintended consequences, as well.) If you want legislation to make something happen, the legislation needs to specify precisely what you want.
If a company was interested in the "spirit" of the legislation, which is to say unwritten and underspecified rules above and beyond the legislation, they'd already be doing it without it having to be legislated.
- asow92 3y agoPrecisely, and Apple have implemented the law in good-faith by reducing service in their own product offering to make things equal, as the law requires them to do so. Ergo, be careful what you wish for, because it might come true.
- lxgr 3y agoDefinitely, but what Apple doesn’t understand is that the EU usually does not settle for the unintended second-order effects of their v1. There will 100% be a DMA 2.0, and it will punish this kind of behavior even more. The same thing has happened to Apple themselves over NFC access. They should be familiar with the pattern!
- JoshTriplett 3y agoAbsolutely. And the net result will itself have unintended consequences and ripple effects through the industry; the net result of this fight will not be good for people who care about technology, potentially even for those who agree with the current DMA, because the more legislation has to specify the more likely it is to overreach or have impedance mismatches. When I said "When you try to control something with regulation, don't ever expect good faith.", I was being descriptive, not normative.
- lxgr 3y agoI don't know, many EU regulations have had a very immediate positive effect on my life, like prohibiting some types of roaming fees, forcing airlines to compensate passengers for delays and cancellations, capping credit card interchange etc., and all of these were highly complex as well. Others have famously backfired – I hate cookie notices as much as everybody else. Time will tell how the DMA will fare.