• CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    No this is an actual problem, complying with the rules can cost a not insignificant amount of money, deliberate or not its essentially a way to price smaller competitors out of the market. Same thing should happen to lemmy under the same law in about 20 years when the UK government gets around to learning it exists.

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      It’s almost as if the effort was financially backed by the failing web2.0 empire (aka centralized social media and Big Tech webpages) specifically to help it remain competitive against the rising wave of web3.0 sources (decentralization such as the Fediverse). Oh ah, I mean “for the children”, yeah…

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        You vastly overestimate the influence of the fediverse. This is a cash grab and a monitoring scheme, nothing more or less. Bills like this have been proposed in the us and uk since before web 2.0 was a fever dream of the most deranged creatives rooming with engineers.