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Nice! Thank you EU for the GDPR!
For the next step, please let the companies that produce software be held accountable for damages. For Nonprofits change the target to associated companies. Also punish the people responsible, like the developers, for their software and choice of used libraries. If the library was insufficiently supported by the developer, then the developer has no ground to sue for damages themselves.
Also punish the people responsible, like the developers, for their software and choice of used libraries.
What??
You write shitty code and it breaks something? You should be punished accordingly.
You load libraries without checking each and every one and now something's broken? You should be punished accordingly.
You load proprietary code and now something's broken? You better checked the whole contract so you can punish the creators after you've been punished.
Software developers often have way more reach (over distance and over time) than they realize. They should be held accountable more like doctors or engineers.
Could they withhold their existence while we're at it?..
Oh.... no... please.... do not do that...
Anyways
Oh no! Anyway...
This escalation will continue,
until big-tech forces the governments to kneel to the surveillance-capitalism biggest:
They will simply say something like:
"Either your government removes laws, regulations, accountability, etc, from us,
XOR we are hamstringing your country: we OWN you, we POSSESS you, & you will obey OUR rule."
I guarantee this will be happening between now & 2036.
Remember how they can ratchet-up a genocide, anywhere??
They've already done so, in some places..
( Facebook & .. was it Myanmar? as 1 example )
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I upvoted purely for using xor in regular speech
until big-tech forces the governments to kneel to the surveillance-capitalism biggest:
You think governments are resisting?
Governments without lobbying and revolving doors. Yes.
Do you know what an optocoupler is? It's when there's no thermal or electric connection between parts, but the information gets transferred.
This is the same. Government officials don't have to officially communicate with businesses in corrupt ways or allow such "revolving doors".
They may communicate, well, face-to-face unofficially, get kickbacks.
And they also can do things mutually interesting for the business and the official without ever communicating about it, the economic interest is that communication in itself.
And then economic interests are just a subset of power interests. Like surveillance.
oh no, not the products!
It’s too bad the websites that do this don’t have to put a label on it in the U.S. Something like “Not for consumption in the E.U.” to make people wonder what’s going on.
I’m struggling with this as a website operator. I don’t have any third-party tracking, no external assets, nothing and I’m dying to put up a cookie banner stating as such even though it’s totally unnecessary and annoying.
You do not have to put up a cookie banner when you are only using technically required ones ornnone at all. Make a dedicated cookies page in your footer and have a table with every cookie, their name, their description and use as well as how long they last.
If you have none, put that info on that page. All you need to do.
That’s what I was saying: that it isn’t required but it would be nice to advertise I’m not doing anything shady.
Great advice on the cookie listing page though. I haven’t considered that.
Apple reversed log standing design policy to put a USB C charger in the iPhone because not selling iPhones in Europe was not a financially viable option.
Apple won't launch their AI features in Europe because changing to comply with regulations is too hard
These features aren't that important then I guess?
This is a total win for Europeans.
Bring more Europe to the US. Lol
We don't want your shitty products :)
"Meta has decided not to release a new multimodal AI model and related products in the EU.
The move follows a similar decision last month by Apple to withhold its new Apple Intelligence features from Europe."
Oh no. Wait. Come back.
You're tearing me apart lisa!
wow so they're holding back on wasteful broken products?Seems like win win
This just in: good time threatened. O no
Does this mean we dont get to be tracked, data mined, ad-bombed, and exploited while our teens dont get depressed and sick from "social" media?
Nah you still get all of that but in a shitter product.
May I introduce you to our friend and saviour, the GDPR regulations?
Nah, you can build algorithms that make depressed teenagers with little to no tracking. Especially if they can train said algorithms from data they already have from the rest of the world.
This is more bark than bite, imo. They're just threatening to withhold products at this point, but as the article points out:
So... go right ahead. Let's see how this really plays out.
"Don't threaten me with a good time"
And the products they are threatening to withhold are exactly the products we don't want. Last time the tech giants threatened to leave entirely the EU asked when to plan the going away party. The current tactic from the giants isn't much better
Same argument for any case where cooperations bitch and whine about regulations.
If the products or "products" being withheld are deemed useful by their users, you're bound to have someone filling the gap created by the butthurt tech giants leaving. Without all the associated data vulturing.
If we're really lucky, those replacements might even become competition for the original products outside the EU, and drive the data vultures out of business.
(Something has to go right in this timeline eventually, right?)
I feel like there's a good chance that this happens, as long as they catch inside the EU, due to network effect.
Capitalism at its best
I wouldn't say "capitalism", given that some of the alternatives filling the gap to be non-commercial in nature.
Free market economy at its best
