alt Hacker NewsLook, I agree with a good part of this article. I also agree that the whole "unregulated internet" is terrible for humankind in general. Crypto is a scam. Meta should be, plain and simple, shut down. Twitter is a madhouse. The list is endless.
However, every single time I feel like stricter regulation should be in place, a congressman speaks about "servers"... and yeah, maybe not.
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ece • today at 7:20 AM
The congressional technology committee Gingrich killed could've fixed this. You can't half ass democracy, you have to keep getting better at governing and convince people it's worth it.
Cider9986 • today at 1:23 AM
Hey, just because 99% of cryptocurrencies are a scam doesn't mean that crypto as a whole is a scam.
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The EU seems to have a different take. As I understand it, regulations are much more malleable in Europe. When problems arise, regulations are put in place. When regulations are problems... it takes a lot longer to remove them, but can still happen eventually. Nothing like the USian deadlock system.
And when they do write them, it's always about general principles. The GDPR doesn't speak of cookie consent banners, instead it speaks of personal data and data controllers and data processors and the reasons you may control or process personal data, one of which is consent, so of course the industry made it as obnoxious as possible.
There are probably places that are doing even better than Europe.