Re:Will California Eliminate Anonymous Web Browsing? (Commen...
by paxys on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @04:13PM
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That argument is used for every new law that is ever considered. Did GDPR kill startups? Did CCPA? COPPA? They will survive this one as well.
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Re:Will California Eliminate Anonymous Web Browsing? (Commen...
by veilrap on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @04:41PM
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They all certainly made the web a worse experience for those using it. Wether that was avoidable or not is moot compared to what happened in practice.
Re:Will California Eliminate Anonymous Web Browsing? (Commen...
by guywithahat on Wednesday August 31, 2022 @04:44PM
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Well that's because it's the trade off for new regulation; the bar of entry will be raised ever so slightly, and a small percentage of struggling/hobby companies will not be able to compete. Eventually with enough regulation the regulated industry becomes effectively an oligopoly. I mean this bill is being pushed in the home state of Facebook, Apple, and other tech giants where they donate the most money. This is not in spite of them but because of them that a bill like this is being pushed through, and I bet if you checked up on who's donated to 5rights or the bills authors you'd see people bought with big tech money https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...