#SCOTUS is likely to decide the cases by June, in the critical months ahead of the #election.
#FirstAmendment experts warn that either argument could lead to outcomes that would be deleterious for #democracy. If the court rules in favor of the #tech companies, the industry could argue that the 1A precludes a broad array of proposed #regulation. If the states win, govts across the country may push ahead w/rules that give states unprecedented #influence over #political#discourse#online.
"But Meta’s version of consent offers users a Hobson’s choice — of paying at least €9.99/month for an ad-free subscription (per each account they have on Facebook and Instagram); or agreeing to its tracking.
No other choices are available, despite the GDPR stipulating that for consent to be a valid legal basis for processing people’s information it must be freely given."
I asked the question whether people believe Apple including some browser choices people will have issue with getting working in their choice screen is :
To provide the best choices for users.
To make the EU mandated choice screen seem stupid.
11% believe Apple can do no wrong. 89% believe they are up to no good.
I guess it is not a surprise as many as 11% think Apple can do no wrong. It is, however, positive that 89% see what is, IMHO, actually going on.
Apple really seem to be taking the fight to the EU and the whole Web app issue is a great example of that, but also having to pay 50c pr download for the privilege of providing your app for download in another app store or directly from your server.
The choice screen also has a lot of issues at this time, but I will wait to see if they actually improve on it before the launch. I really hope so. Apple trying to be worse that Google and Microsoft is not a pretty sight.
I am not even mentioning the issues with using your own browser core in this message...
Apple has very publicly told you to go fuck yourselves with its malicious compliance. What you do next will decide whether malicious compliance is acceptable in the EU or not.
Microsoft has managed to convince the EU that nobody uses Edge and that thus Edge does not need to be designated as a gatekeeper. 😒
Microsoft points at StatCounter, an unreliable source of information, which Microsoft blocks access to in strict mode, based on our research.
Windows is still designated as a gatekeeper, as it should, but not designating Edge opens up a hole in the regulation.
I guess some of you may find this funny and think that it is kind of true that nobody uses Edge, but sadly that is not the truth. A lot of people are forced to use Edge.
I would urge you all to uninstall Edge from Windows when that is possible and make Microsoft's utter nonsense become the truth!
Then you can install @Vivaldi, if you have not done so!😀
Modern unfettered #capitalism is simply the ethical acceptance of pain death & misery of tens thousands as the price for a few people’s yachts lives of luxury where others earn money for them #billionaires#regulation#taxes
A law professor breaks down what it would mean if AI companies were made liable for the physical risks the technology poses to people today and in the future. Dylan Matthews delves into the topic for Vox.
“I never could have predicted the sheer scope of Tesla’s systemic disregard for the environment, and the laws that are supposed to protect it… let alone the regulatory malpractice that has enabled it.”
“At the end of the day, this is the one thing scarier than Elon Musk: the fact that we all wanted so badly to believe his empty promises that we let him run amok, and allowed him to become something that even he clearly doesn’t actually control anymore. Musk and Tesla are one man and one company, and in theory could be brought into line with enough political will, but they exist in their current monstrous states precisely because we can no longer summon the political will to do anything hard. Musk is the ugly reflection of our collective ineptitude, apathy and stupidity, and as long as he goes unpunished he will continue to pollute our physical and mental environment in ever more grotesque ways.”
We’re in the middle of a perfect storm for rollback of the “open web” and burgeoning online surveillance
Looking at fallout of the KOSA hearings today — and subsequent commentary — I remain optimistic for the development of social technology & communication but I’m beginning to think the open web may basically “Do a Yahoo!” and fade, largely because of our self-appointed privacy, safety and national-security activists.
We are living at an unfortunate confluence of several movements in civil society and politics:
people who believe that online speech is directly comparable to physical harm
privacy activists who killed cookies to protect us from GAFAM “tracking” thereby wiping-out competition in advertising, imperilling small business, and encouraging some of the largest platforms (Chrome, iOS) to simply spy on us instead
failing and minor platforms which — given the death of cookies — may perceive the KnowYourCustomer™ elements of safety-demanded “age verification” as a potential parachute for their advertising revenue
political and legal activists who demand “data localism” because they believe that data protection hinges greatly upon lawyers having local CEOs and preventing seizure of servers, perhaps than it does upon preventing intrusion, scraping and hacking
security services, sitting in the middle of this hurricane, trying to make it whirl faster because making all internet activity attributable and trackable is food for their existence
We are in for a rough few years. There will be losses. The “app” ecosystem will likely take a big — possibly majority — chunk out of the “open web” as users demand features which are more easily built without the abstraction of traditional web/web-like services.