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Comment by superkuh

7 months ago

The EU's digital markets act is one that got that right and I love it. But it's the exception to the rule. The vast majority of such laws are for the benefit of the corporations themselves, despite any ostensible purposes. And this is definitely in that latter category.

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froh  7 months ago

"glad that EU overregulation doesn't hamper the freedom of the United kingdom any more."

what can we do about this creep up of totalitarian surveillance plutocracy?

sweet were the 1990s with a dream.of.information access for all.

little did we know we were the information being accessed.

srry

very un-HN-y.. maybe it's just the time of the year but this really pulls me down currently.

Vespasian  7 months ago

Also a lot of other EU regulations do the same.

Sometimes it's explicitly mentioned but oftentimes it's behind "appropriate and proportionate measures"

  • superkuh  7 months ago

    But most don't. GDPR for example. It's pretty wack that random people coming to my neighborhood BBQ can demand I give them the backyard surveillance camera recording or force me to delete it (a metaphor for a personal website logs). Such makes perfect sense for a corporation but none when applied to a human person and context.

    We should make the laws for our digital spaces for human person use cases first, not corporate person use cases. Even if it's in the sense of trying to protect humans from corporations.