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Privacy was the first thing that the EU did that started this trend of companies slowing their EU releases because of GDPR. Now there's the Digital Markets Act
by lolinder 2y ago
Privacy was the first thing that the EU did that started this trend of companies slowing their EU releases because of GDPR. Now there's the Digital Markets Act and the AI Act that both have caused companies to slow their releases to the EU.
Each new large regulation adds another category of company to the list of those who choose not to participate. Sure, you can always label them as companies who don't value principle X, but at some point it stops being the fault of the companies and you have to start looking at whether there are too many enormous regulations slowing down tech releases.
- Agingcoder 2y agoThis is an interesting point. The word fault somehow implies that something’s wrong - from the eu regulator’s perspective, what’s happening is perfectly normal, and what they want : at some point, the advances in insert new tech are not worth the (social) cost to individuals, so they make things more complicated/ ask companies to behave differently. Now I’m not saying the regulations are good, required, etc : just that depending on your goal, there are multiple points of view, with different landing zones. I also suspect that what’s happening now ( meta, apple slowing down) is a power play : they’re just putting pressure on the eu, but I’m harboring doubts that this can work at all.