• smiletolerantly@awful.systems
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    4 months ago

    It’s a good day to be an EU citizen.
    Just like yesterday.
    just like tomorrow.
    Just like any other day except whenever some asshole pushes for ChatControl

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      4 months ago

      watching the chatcontrol shit from afar has been extremely depressing

      and it’s the idea that’ll never die as long as police/security forces are built the way they are right now, which doubly sucks

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        4 months ago

        Yeah. It’s also just so incongruous with everything the EU usually (tries to) stand for.

        The best thing would be if the courts decide that mandatory client side scanning is plain illegal. But for that the measure has to pass, so someone can sue. Not a pleasant prospect.

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          everything the EU usually (tries to) stand for

          only when for itself. there’s a lot to (and which I do) like about the EU from the outside, but also a lot not

          courts decide … measure has to pass

          yeah and the moment the floodgates are open, there will be a long tail of this shit everywhere that’ll take an immensely long time to get cleaned up. and possibly may never be fully cleaned up. just like the current problem of surveillance-based advertising, which I’m not sure whether it can fully go away even if the very business model itself is made untenable - a lot of that infrastructure will die, but some will find new homes in more unsavoury purposes

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    4 months ago

    Honestly, EU could just operate on an “opposite-day” policy, where they consequently outlaw every business practice Facebook (“Meta”) partakes in, and it would be 99% correct and beneficial to every citizen.

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    4 months ago

    They didn’t need to put this in, but they did;

    In case of non-compliance, the Commission can impose fines up to 10% of the gatekeeper’s total worldwide turnover. Such fines can go up to 20% in case of repeated infringement. Moreover, in case of systematic non-compliance, the Commission is also empowered to adopt additional remedies such as obliging a gatekeeper to sell a business or parts of it or banning the gatekeeper from acquisitions of additional services related to the systemic non-compliance.

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      4 months ago

      pretty common to see that mentioned ito EU going after megacorps; the tone was set by microsoft actions in the 00s (the Office saga), and has rung a few times since over the years

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    4 months ago

    Most media paywalls nowadays have “pay or consent to cookies and swallow advertizing”…