Re:StreetLend.com shuts down, citing GDPR regulations
by tomxor on Monday April 30, 2018 @07:08AM
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> But do you remember when the EU outlawed environmentally shitty lightbuilbs and everyone said we were going dark because it was impossible to do anything else? Today 95% of lightbuilbs are LEDs because of that.
And now we are finding out LED lights are bad for our eyes and our sleep, so we may go blind sooner and die sooner.
Ok that might be a bit extreme, and besides there is an efficient incandescent tech that will probably come back and save us (and you can argue the EU helped that too)... but my point is the EU has good intents but their creations seem polarised into either extremely preemptive or extremely reflexive and are often premature and poorly thought out, fighting for something for the people but often without thought for how they will directly hurt the people.
For tech the EU isn't exactly unique in this respect though, the UK for instance recently tried to inact some pretty rediculous laws that undermine basic technologies that make the internet work.
And now we are finding out LED lights are bad for our eyes and our sleep, so we may go blind sooner and die sooner.
Ok that might be a bit extreme, and besides there is an efficient incandescent tech that will probably come back and save us (and you can argue the EU helped that too)... but my point is the EU has good intents but their creations seem polarised into either extremely preemptive or extremely reflexive and are often premature and poorly thought out, fighting for something for the people but often without thought for how they will directly hurt the people.
For tech the EU isn't exactly unique in this respect though, the UK for instance recently tried to inact some pretty rediculous laws that undermine basic technologies that make the internet work.