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Honestly Meta is just plain stupid. These formats are an informal way to avoid strong regulation but solve problems and used in many settings of govermental reg
by snowpid 4mo ago
Honestly Meta is just plain stupid. These formats are an informal way to avoid strong regulation but solve problems and used in many settings of govermental regulation as a first try.
Snubbing them will increase the chance of hard regulation.
I guess Zucki, Meta and SV folks (proofed on HN itself) just drunk too much "EU is declining because of regulation" and it will end like Lightning and Apple.
- mrits 4mo agoThe US is moving rapidly away from EU towards Asia. EU acts like they are driving this.
- snowpid 4mo agoare you sure? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8p61v7l68o https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8p61v7l68o https://asia.nikkei.com/politics/defense/japan-eyes-european-defense-development-tie-up-under-eu-initiative https://asia.nikkei.com/politics/defense/japan-eyes-european...
- riffraff 4mo agoJapan is also already in the world's largest free trade agreement with the EU[0] and in a joint development program for a next generation fighter plane with Italy and the UK[1]. The US has squandered a massive amount of goodwill since the first Trump presidency. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93European_Union_Comprehensive_Economic_Partnership_Agreement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%E2%80%93European_Union_C... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Combat_Air_Programme https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Combat_Air_Programme
- kaveh_h 4mo agoAsia will ignore US deals, especially on social media. Look at Australia are even more hawkish than EU. Japan and South Korea are more culturally close to China when it comes to social harmony and the will probably follow suit when it comes to be strict on social media even if they allow US media it will be by much stricter rules than US.
- mrits 4mo agoJapan and China go together like Nazi Germany and Israel
- skeledrew 4mo agoStupid how? There's nothing regulation-worthy about banning users who aren't in some legally binding contract that'd make the action a breach of terms.
- TheOtherHobbes 4mo agoYou can't use Meta without agreeing to "some legally binding contract."
- skeledrew 4mo agoThere's nothing in any of those contracts about guaranteeing users will always have access to the(ir?) accounts. Anything pro-user in them that's not also pro-company will have been mandated by law, and account access isn't.
- snowpid 4mo agoHmm if a company is so important, it needs to regulate on case basis and needs to open not just on their criteria. Thats the price a network has to pay.